By: Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune
Summer ends on Labor Day. You can be annoying and say, no, it ends with the calendar, the rotation of the Earth, the coming of autumn on Sept. 23, but please, Labor Day, it's always Labor Day. Which also happens to be the last day this year when the SS Badger, pride of Lake Michigan since 1953, the last steam-powered passenger ferry on the Great Lakes, takes overnight travelers across the lake, in the dead of night.