Taking a boat to Chicago

This probably seems like a really dumb question (and NU would probably rescind me if they saw this) but why don’t people use Lake Michigan to travel from Chicago to Evanston? It seems like it would be a lot faster than by car (especially with traffic).

https://www.chicagowatertaxi.com/Chicago-River-Boat-Stops

Call and ask to add northwestern… Lol… Interesting idea but not sure overall if it would be faster then the trains to bus routes.

probably infrastructure concerns

And winter.