ABC’s Good Morning America has a segment they call “Your Weekend Window” that featured the Minneapolis Chain of Lakes today. It’s a nice overview of why I love living here, except they make a big mistake — they call it the Chain of Lakes in the town of Calhoun, Minnesota. There’s no town of Calhoun around here, the “Chain of Lakes” are four lakes in Minneapolis; you’d think that the fact that all the people they interview are Minneapolis Park Board employees would be a hint. The Lakes are from top to bottom: Cedar Lake, Lake of the Isles, Lake Calhoun and Lake Harriet. Lake Nakomis is further down Minnehaha Creek.   Watch the video.

Fun fact about Lake Calhoun, it used to be named “Medoza” meaning  Lake of the loons, but after Secretary of War, John Calhoun sent the Army to survey the area around Fort Snelling in 1817, they named it after him.

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