Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas

Posted by Stratoscope 22 hours ago

Chicago O'Hare digs up 50-ton boulder under airfield, asks public for name ideas(simpleflying.com)

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contingencies 4 hours ago|

As an Australian aware of Chicago's Irish heritage and the implied weight balancing our antipodean clime, I'd suggest "Tip O'Dea".

PS. If visiting Chicago check out the Lincoln Park Conservatory, an amazing historic plant collection with one of the world's best ferneries, very close to downtown. https://www.lincolnparkconservancy.org/projects/conservatory...

pvaldes 4 hours ago||

Stonehangar, of course

mindslight 20 hours ago||

There's something about finding huge rocks in the ground while digging that makes you just want to take them out and like, use them for something? The last one I found I had to make myself leave it there (well I moved it over a foot so a pipe didn't have to go around it). Like no, it has sat here for thousands of years just fine, it can keep sitting. Glad to hear it applies to 50 ton ones, as well.

acomjean 18 hours ago||

In New England they made stone walls out of them. Of course most where smallish

https://www.outdoors.org/resources/amc-outdoors/history/hist...

In “original” England they did as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_stone

mindslight 7 hours ago||

Oh sure, I'm definitely familiar with those. The weird ones are in forests, a reminder that an area used to be clear and then was left to grow back.

The walls of stones were the result of collecting stones that were near the surface from what I understand (maybe plow depth). I was talking more like bigger stones that were buried several feet under the ground that could just stay where they are (when you fill in the hole), but for a compulsion to treat them as things.

acomjean 19 hours ago||

In New England they made stone walls out of them.

In “original” England they did as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_stone

powerbroker 21 hours ago||

There is another rock sitting alongside a chief artery about 25 miles NW just beyond Schaumburg. Silly to give these things a name.

Stratoscope 21 hours ago|

There are big rocks everywhere. But surely we can be allowed to have a little fun?

powerbroker 19 hours ago||

OK, OK. just drag it up to Schaumburg. Put it next to the other rock. Then call it 'micro-henge'.

Stratoscope 19 hours ago||

That works for me! Can you help me drag this 50-ton rock?

dhosek 1 hour ago||

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hal-eisen 4 hours ago|

How is it possible that NONE of the candidate names refer to Colbert? Especially given his time with Second City.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_impact_of_The_Colbert...

nonethewiser 4 hours ago||

I dont get it. Does he have some association with large rocks or something?

tptacek 4 hours ago||

Colbert is not a Chicago figure. You'd have to remind the median Chicagoan who knows who he is that he ever spent time here. You might just as easily name it after Bob Odenkirk.

dhosek 1 hour ago||

And at least Odenkirk sounds like he’s from Chicago (because he is). Colbert’s time in Chicago was a short part of his life.

tptacek 1 hour ago||

Berwyn, technically! Our neck of the woods. :)