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Video: Watch Ice Floes Float Away On The Chicago River

By Chuck Sudo in News on Feb 20, 2014 11:10PM

Via the Tribune, here is a time lapse video by Albert Bartkus of ice floes floating down the Chicago River away from Lake Michigan. Bartkus, who lives on the 54th floor of Marina Towers, shot 1,008 photographs five seconds apart to create this video.