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- The City has awarded contracts connected to the demolition of Michael Reese Hospital to make way for the proposed Olympic Village for the 2016 Summer Olympics.
- Unemployment for the Chicago metro area is up again, hitting 11.3 percent for June.
- The battle over a helipad at the new Children's Hospital in Streeterville continues.
- United Airlines is looking into relocating a major operations center consisting of 2,800 employees from Elk Grove to the
SearsWillis Tower. - Gov. Quinn, fresh from a trip to visit Illinois soldiers stationed in the Middle East, is urging people to donate frequent flier miles to assist the families of wounded soldiers.
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Can't they just use the "helipad" in Lincoln Park that Obama used yesterday evening?
Am I missing something here? Why on earth would it be a bad idea to put a helipad on top of a children's hospital? Let's just shutter the whole ER too!
The concern is that the helipad would be in the middle of Streeterville, among many tall residential buildings. Given the fact that helicopters are prone to accidents, especially in bad weather and updrafts from the buildings, a crash is deemed too risky. There have been a disturbing number of Air Ambulance crashes in the past -- so much that the FAA grounded them in Illinois for a time last year. Their safety record is worrisome.
Obama did not take the helicopter that awaited him when he landed in Air Force One due to the thunderstorms that were passing through when he arrived. Instead, he drove to his gig in Lincoln Park. So, people do not trust helicopters in bad weather.