Results tagged “hurricaneharbor”

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.

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....

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 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."