As I mentioned to a couple of people on Friday, just wait I bet the overshooting of the runway at Midway on Thursday night will end up to be either mechanical or pilot error.  Not necessarily due to the weather.  And low and behold:

"Stuck switch cited in accident"

I did find it ironic that just days earlier I had been playing around at www.googlesighseeing.com and found their page for Midway.  Read the caption under the first photo...

http://googlesightseeing.com/2005/11/02/chicagos-midway-airport/

Also on the ironic front "Incident follows another Midway crash by 33 years -- to the day"

Thoughts about the American Flight shooting in Miami after the jump.

A weakened smoking ban finally passed in the great city of Chicago.  Specifics below the jump

Source: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-051208buttsout-quote,1,1346607.quote