But officials of the historic Navy Pier decided freezing weather was no reason to ignore the lakeshore, so they created a beach inside one of its pavilions.
The response to the first preaching tour of Galilee had been so great that Jesus now set up a training camp on the lakeshore near Bethsaida just to the south of Capernaum.
And thus it was that a few mornings after the resurrection, as the Apostles came ashore from a night of fishing, they encountered Jesus waiting for them on the lakeshore by a fire.