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We've been trying to work out a better fart joke for the headline but that seems to be the best one we could come up with. In truth, Chipotle, the makers of huge gut-busting diet-trashing insanely-delicious burritos really are going to harness the power of wind. Not the I-just-ate-beans kind. The breeze-across-the-Midwest kind. They've just received approval to add a wind turbine to a new location they're planning to open in Gurnee Mills. The 60-foot...

Around the virtual Chicagoist "offices" we're known as "Grandpa" because we're one of the older members of the staff. We also have a penchant for telling "back in my day" stories, so sit back and strap in as we take the Chicagoist Wayback Machine on a trip to the spring of 1987. Back then, Harold Washington was re-elected as mayor and he had the votes in City Council to fully implement his agenda; Andre Dawson...

Thank the Lord. Six Flags Great America is going to expand its sales of hard liquor this summer. Man, we were worried that not enough people were getting sick, acting the fool and being generally lame at Great America. Now they will have plenty more ammunition to fuel their fire.

Props to commenter geekgrrl for calling this one last Thursday when we reported that Six Flags will be daring people to eat live cockroaches for a chance to jump the line. PETA has asked Six Flags to cancel the promotion during next month's "Fright Fest," calling it "a tired gag from 'Fear Factor.'"

We know you're so excited to ride that new Superman roller coaster at Six Flags Great America that you're hopping around like a little girl about to pee in her pants. But would you eat a 3-inch long hissing cockroach to get through the line faster? As part of their annual "Fright Fest" Halloween promotion, Six Flags will allow anyone who eats a live Madagascar hissing cockroach to skip to the front of the line....

The CTA needs themselves a James Koh: Mistakes on the new CTA maps cost one guy his job and will cost the agency $75,000 to correct. Topinka unveiled her new education plan. The U of C jumped up to 9th place in a national college ranking. Traffic aides in the green vests get no respect. No, it's not OK to sleep on the job, even if you work for the city. Diarrhea Harbor (a.k.a....

We remember our first “real kiss”. It was a bajillion years ago, on a hot, sticky, summer night. We were at Great America, exhilarated after one last, wet ride on Logger's Run. We remember an unmemorable boy sticking a dry and bumpy tongue into our virgin mouth. We were disappointingly shocked, wondering out loud to our tittering friends, “wait, this is supposed to feel good?”

You know what is more fun than standing in the hot sun for three hours to ride a rollercoaster or water slide that takes a minute or less to get through? Pretty much everything. We realize that not everyone shares our hatred for theme parks like Six Flags Great America and the Dells, and that’s all well and good. But what if we told you their rides were also death traps?

If you think that Great America is too expensive then maybe you should just wait around a while. Yesterday developers broke ground on a project that the Rosemont village mayor has dubbed "Disneyland North." Just what Chicago needs!

Chicagoist hasn't been to Six Flags Great America for years, but we used to love to go and remember the last time we went (1999?) we thought it was really expensive. Great America opened for the season on Saturday, and we were shocked to read that the price for a single adult admission (anyone over 54 inches) is now $54.99. For one day! Holy shit! And that doesn't include the cost of gas to get up there or soda or anything to eat or a wacky souvenir Bugs Bunny tshirt. Not to mention that the price of parking also went up this season. It's now $15 to park for the day.

The Orange Line is quite possibly our favorite train line in the “L” system. Towering high above the southwest side it cuts a swath across several working-class neighborhoods before reaching its final destination at Midway Airport. Furthermore, with the right conductor you can get from downtown to Midway in twenty minutes- sometimes a ride on the Orange Line is more thrilling than a roller coaster at Great America. With dining and nightlife so focused on...

Thrill-seekers looking for a good time at Six Flags Great America yesterday got disappointment instead, after a series of power outages shuttered the park for more than two hours. Power flickered off for about 30 minutes at 1:20 p.m., and a backup system's subsequent failure an hour and a half later left park-goers in the dark for more than two hours - some stranded atop roller coasters and thrill rides.

Acting in violation of a year-old state law protecting a woman’s right to feed her children with her boobs, a lifeguard at Great America asked a North Chicago woman to exit a wading pool while breast-feeding her 4-month-old daughter. Despite covering herself, her baby and her boobs with a blanket—thereby sparing all concerned the trauma of a semi-nude portion of the human body—Rebecca Gray was asked to adjourn to a private area while engaging in...

Crain's Chicago Business released their annual list of Chicago's Largest Tourism Attractions, and to nobody's surprise, Navy Pier whupped some tourism butt by topping the list of favorite attractions in the city. Stomping the next largest attraction, the Taste of Chicago, by 3.2 million people, the Pier had 8.75 million visitors last year, and raked in $43 million in revenues. Coming in number two was the Chicago Cubs, with 3.1 visitors in 2004, and Six...

The new park will be built this winter in Gurnee, on 13 acres of land ajoining Six Flags' Great America. Features of the park will include include slides, raft rides and a wave pool. There will also be a two-acre play area with 17 towers interconnected with slides, bridges, chutes and ladders that would be "the world's largest interactive water play structure."