Today in No Sh*t: Our Potholes Are Awful

By Marcus Gilmer in Miscellaneous on May 4, 2009 9:00PM

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We know our potholes are awful and sometimes bigger media outlets tell us so. This time around, it's travel website Gadling ranking our potholes as among the worst in the world. Second, actually, behind the potholes of Harare, Zimbabwe. Says the website over our Swiss cheese roads: "Chicago is on par with many third world countries when it comes to road repairs." We beg to differ: our potential 2016 Olympic sites have some of the quickest, most thorough pothole repairs of potential 2016 Olympic sites anywhere. Suck it, Rio! [via Second City Cop]

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