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Walk this way: It's the end of an era at O'Hare Airport after United Airlines officials unveiled in a Tribune article their plans to remove all of the moving walkways in the their terminal in an effort to speed two-legged traffic — and help city officials shake some dollars loose from passengers' wallets. (They want add more shops and don't want riders to speed by them.) Half of the bouncy walkways in Concourse C are already gone, with the rest set to be tossed on the ash heap of reporter Heather Cherone's childhood by the spring. However, the moving walkway in the tunnel that connect concourses B and C and allows travelers to gaze up at the "Sky's the Limit'' overhead light sculpture will remain.
Cozy crowds: Here's an idea for sports teams that don't draw well: think small. That's what the WNBA's Washington Mystics is going to try, moving from the 20,000-seat Verizon Center they share with the NBA Wizards to a new 5,000-seat home of their own. The team averages 8,000 so the smaller stadium could put tickets at a premium and, says owner Ted Leonsis, might create "an unbelievably positive environment for the team." The new stadium will make the Mystics only the second WNBA team not to share a home with an NBA team, says the Washington Post. The other is the Chicago Sky, who play Monday night at Allstate Arena in the deciding game of their opening playoff round against Indianapolis.
The Chicago Sky play Monday at 7 p.m. at the Allstate Arena. The league averaged 7,318 per game, the lowest in the league's history. [Getty Images/File Photo
Higher Ed: Fortune looks at where its 50 Most Powerful Women went to college. Well, most of them, anyway. Singer Taylor Swift, poor thing, never went. Nine went to Ivy League schools. Some 57 percent hold graduate degrees, with seven having multiple graduate degrees. Some local shoutouts: Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM, and Ellen Kullman, CEO of DuPont, have sheepskins from Northwestern; Debra Crew, president of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco is a University of Chicago grad.
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