Cranes on barges? Pumping concrete into the river? It's all part of a $22 million project to create a continuous public river walk between the Michigan Avenue bridge and State Street. Typical Chicago attitude: No room along the river? No problem. We'll just build it.

And you tell me that Chicago couldn't handle the Olympics, please. We've reversed the flow of our river, built the tallest buildings in the world, and reclaimed over 1,000 acres of land from Lake Michigan.

All winter we've been able to monitor the progress of the new river walk from my new office on the 15th floor of the old IBM building. Learn more about the river walk here: http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2009/03/the-chicago-river-walk-a-dream-about-to-take-a-big-step-forward.html