Extra Extra: Six Flags Delays Debut Of Most Extreme Wooden Roller Coaster

By Chuck Sudo in News on May 27, 2014 11:00PM

One of Goliath's planned overbanked rolls.(Six Flags Entertainment Corporation)

Six Flags is blaming weather for the belated debut of Goliath, the world's most extreme wooden roller coaster, at Great America in Gurnee later this year. [Tribune]
A White Sox fan kept a wayward baseball bat from hitting a baby in the stands at 35th and Shields. [Deadspin]
Meet Luke Sangerman, who at 17 is the youngest performer to be in a Blue Man Group production. [DNAInfo Chicago]
Pilgrim's Pride is offering to buy Hillshire Brands for $6.4 billion. That's a lot of sausage. [Sun-Times]
City officials warn of swimming near boat docks. You could get electric shock and drown. [Tribune]

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