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Title: Chicago shut down Today??
Post by: cin605 on August 17, 2009, 04:45:34 pm
Any one care to explain??? ;)
I just saw chicagos town offices ect...were shut down today.....to save money....now i i know it didn't have anything to do w/ the pirate invasion...right???
Title: Re: Chicago shut down Today??
Post by: Kaybo on August 17, 2009, 05:14:20 pm
Wow!  We just left today (& still haven't gotten home - bad weather - got diverted) but didn't hear anything about that!!

K
Title: Re: Chicago shut down Today??
Post by: Kate B on August 17, 2009, 05:42:10 pm
Hmm..did I read that Pirate bail money was not enough to balance the budget?

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/Chicago.city.closed.2.1129409.html

A sign of the times...

Title: Re: Chicago shut down Today??
Post by: 4cm in Pacific Northwest on August 17, 2009, 05:51:02 pm
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-city-offices-brief-17-aug17,0,5772004.story

Sunday the city, and roads to the airports, were packed as the air show ended-  tourists making the mass exodus.

You would think the city would want staff collecting trash, especially this Monday, as I imagine the beach and pathways, at the lake, would be a mess... not to mention a pirate ship that was abandoned at the port pier... as the captain became land-locked at the airport. I wonder what the city staff will do with the pirate ship docked there?

Yup I think the pirates scarred off the civil civil servants and sent them all into hiding.

DHM
Title: Re: Chicago shut down Today??
Post by: cin605 on August 17, 2009, 06:33:35 pm
They do not call it the windy city for nuthin!!!! ;D
Title: Re: Chicago shut down Today??
Post by: ppearl214 on August 17, 2009, 07:45:15 pm
Hmm..did I read that Pirate bail money was not enough to balance the budget?

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/Chicago.city.closed.2.1129409.html

A sign of the times...



No bail money raised... hence... the town shut down after MOST of our departures! :D
Title: Re: Chicago shut down Today??
Post by: saralynn143 on August 17, 2009, 08:39:15 pm
That student who needed to use the computer at the library should just head to the Apple store. That's where I went to check my e-mail. The hotel wifi was too expensive.

Sara
Title: Re: Chicago shut down Today??
Post by: leapyrtwins on August 17, 2009, 10:47:18 pm
Thanks to all for the info.  Although I live in a Chicago suburb, I had no idea this was going on.  Sometimes it's weeks before I see or read the news  ::)

Have to say though that saving 8.3 million dollars is nothing to sneeze at.  Congrats to Richie Daley - maybe he should give Governator Arnold some tips  ;)

Jan