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Beefs about O’Hare: it sucks, its revitalization plan doesn’t include enough black contractors, and the taxi drivers’ bathrooms are too small to sit down in.
Incidentally, if you’re wondering why your plane is so likely to be delayed at O’Hare, the clearest explanation I’ve read comes from air transportation columnist Patrick Smith, author of the wonderful column “Ask the Pilot,” at the Freakonomics blog (scroll down). American carriers think that having as many flights as possible is really convenient; having way overshot the convenience angle, Smith thinks that they’ll reverse course.
Jesse Jackson Jr. poured bottled water into the Chicago River to protest the city’s new tax on the product. News of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch makes me a little more sympathetic to the ban, but not much.
