Burnham Harbor

Burnham Harbor is the harbor in Chicago on Lake Michigan where Thomas Raith parks his boat, the Water Beetle. The Harbor's first big scene is in Death Masks.

In the Series
In Death Masks, Harry Dresden goes to the harbor to investigate the Estranger, a ship that he suspects implicated in the whereabouts of the thieves of the Shroud of Turin. While confronting Anna Valmont and Francisca Garcia, the Denarian called Deirdre shows up in an attempt to take the Shroud from them, killing Garcia sinking the Estranger in the process. Anna Valmont takes off with the Shroud.

In White Night, Harry's brother, Thomas, uses the boat to shelter and move practitioners he is protecting to safety. Some of the women are from Ordo Lebes. While Harry and Elaine are there investigating the whereabouts of Olivia, they are attacked by many ghouls. Harry draws the heat from Lake Michigan causing ice to form so the women and children can escape from the boat under seige over the ice to a far dock.

Descripton
Harry describes the Burnham Harbor as looking like the "parking lot of an oceangoing Wal-Mart. It seems large enough to hold a football field or three. Vessels of many varites were tied ot white warves that stretched out over the water. The lake smelled like dead fish, algae and motor oil.