Chicago winter looks a little different when the icebreaker rolls through ❄️🚢 #chicago #drone #dronestagram • • • • • Chicago cold just hits different. ❄️ The kind of cold that bites your face, freezes your eyelashes, and makes Lake Michigan look like a broken sheet of glass. When winter shows up here, it doesn’t tiptoe in — it takes over. And that’s why we’ve got this absolute beast of a boat: the icebreaker. 🚢 While the rest of us are bundled up, sprinting from door to door trying to keep our fingers from going numb, this thing is out on the lake literally breaking winter apart. It plows through thick ice so the harbors don’t freeze solid, keeps shipping channels open, protects the shoreline from ice jams, and makes sure boats and emergency crews can still move even when the lake tries to shut down for the season. It’s like Chicago’s way of saying, “Yeah, it’s brutal out here… but we’re tougher.” There’s something wild about watching an icebreaker carve a path through frozen wat...