Chicago Board Game Gets Makeover

Late for the Sky, a Cincinnati-based board game company, is giving its Chicago-centric board game, "Chicago-in-a-box," a makeover and is rechristening the game the not-quite-trademark-infringing "Chicago-opoly." Company spokeswoman Carla Miller said, “We are actually in the process of revising the Chicago-In-A-Box game. It will now be called Chicago-opoly...Chicago-opoly was created with the help of Chicago natives,” she said. “We asked Chicagoans ‘What makes this place so great?’ While it’s impossible to include everything, Chicago-opoly hits the highlights.”

The game closely mirrors the very popular board game "Monopoly" but substitutes Chicago-centric landmarks. For example, Boardwalk and Park Place have become the Water Tower and the Gold Coast. And what of the iconic Sears Tower getting a new name? Miller told the S-T via email, “Thanks for the new info and feedback. I'll pass it on and see what the decision-makers want to do." Yeah, we wouldn't bother changing it either. And where's the TIF square? [Sun-Times via Beachwood]