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So, I check my stats this morning and I see a morning surge of traffic. Obviously, there's a reason and the reason is my CTA Google Map. I like it and so do some of the cool kids on Livejournal (LJ). At about 11:30 pm last night Corey Adour (infatuator) wrote in chicago_el inquiring about the CTA's problems at O'Hare. Appears that there was a fire in a janitor's closet:

train service on the CTA Blue Line was interrupted for over an hour this morning by a small fire at the O'Hare Airport station, CTA officials said. The fire broke out around 8:25 a.m. in a janitor closet adjacent to the station platform's elevator, Antongiorgi said. The cause is under investigation. From 8:30 a.m. until about 10:15 a.m., the CTA provided shuttle buses from the Rosemont L stop to and from O'Hare while Chicago firefighters secured the scene. The fire was struck at 8:46 a.m., but it took longer to clear thick smoke that obstructed the platform. Trains were back in service by 9:54 a.m., Antongiorgi said. The Rosemont Fire Department transported one person to Resurrection Medical Center for smoke inhalation. No other injuries were reported, Antongiorgi said.

At any rate, in Cory's post he threw in a link to my CTA Google Map and this line:

The best part about this are the drop down menus. You can find coffee shops, thrift stores, free wifi, bars, chinese food, and pizza near any el stop.

I realize of course that this doesn't yet explain the higher than expected traffic this morning. To get into that I have to explain how LJ works. Stuff you post can be aggregated by your LJ "friends" into one nice screen feed. This way, you don't have to visit all of your friends' LJ accounts just to see if they posted something new. So, becuase of this one post people are checking out the map again. Which is cool because, well, it's my map.

All aboard the love train CHICAGO Some commuters find fast track to romance BY KIKI NICHOLS Medill News Service I told you to look for Amy and me in the news today. Also mentioned over at Chicagoist. It all came about because of a posting on January 17 over at the CTA Tattler blog. Update: 2/15/2006 5:20 P.M. CT The expanded story which ran in the Chi-Town Daily News on 2/13 was first published on the Medill News Service (for which Kiki writes) 16 days age on January 31. That story is entitled Finding love on the El Update: 2/15/2006 5:06 P.M. CT It looks like Kiki did a more expanded version of the story which ran in the Chi-Town Daily News and was entitled The love train which was actually published Mon, 2006-02-13 09:09

Mushaboom is a song by Canadian born singer Fesit [a bio, a French site and google music results] from 2004 album "Let It Die". The song on it's own is quite good [watch the video]. However, the pièce de résistance is the remix done by The Postal Service. [via] eNjoy!