"The gales of November came early-and in every way possible. Icy snow battered Chicago on Sunday night, swirling so hard it felt like the wind had teeth. Inside of the Skylark, one of the city's venerable dive bars, a crowd of dozens looked grateful to have escaped it. But early snowfall wasn't what brought us together. We weren't there for the Bears game. It wasn't a trivia night. We were there for something weirder-and maybe bigger."
"Monday marked the 50-year anniversary of the sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald, which went down during a ferocious storm in Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975. The disaster took the lives of the ship's entire crew, 29 men who were never found, and it remains the largest ship to have ever sunk in the Great Lakes. Ships sink all the time, especially in busy waterways like Lake Superior. An estimated 6,000 to 10,000 ships have sunk in the Great Lakes alone."
The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a ferocious storm on Lake Superior on Nov. 10, 1975, taking all 29 crew members who were never found. The wreck remains the largest ship ever lost in the Great Lakes. An estimated 6,000 to 10,000 ships have sunk in the Great Lakes, with many wrecks dating back centuries. Gordon Lightfoot released "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" in 1976, turning the regional disaster into an international elegy. Chicago experienced early November gales and heavy snow as people gathered at the Skylark dive bar to remember the 50th anniversary.
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