Half Day Road and the Origins of a Semantic Slip-up
Curious City
WBEZ Chicago
4.8 • 642 Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
A half day from ... what? Why this suburban myth is not even half true, and why the same mistake was made again 600 miles away.
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| 0:00.0 | When were the... |
| 0:03.0 | What school's up? |
| 0:05.4 | Who decides what the next... |
| 0:07.2 | Where's that story? |
| 0:08.6 | Why they keep the look? |
| 0:10.5 | What is this? |
| 0:12.9 | It's a curious city. |
| 0:14.3 | Where WBEZ answers your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people. |
| 0:20.4 | Logan Jaffe, multimedia producer here. |
| 0:23.0 | This time on Curious City, Half Day Road. |
| 0:26.7 | If you don't know it already, it's that long suburban stretch of road |
| 0:30.0 | that runs from the Skokie River area to the intersection of Buffalo Grove Road. |
| 0:35.1 | If you're in Chicago's northern suburbs and Lake County, |
| 0:38.1 | you've probably seen the exit signs on I-94. But why is it called half-day? It takes half a day to get there? |
| 0:45.7 | Because taking the whole road takes half a day? Because you need half a day to get from the city |
| 0:50.8 | to the road? I don't know. |
| 0:55.8 | Like, I have no clue. |
| 0:59.9 | Anita Silvert, who grew up in Skokie, |
| 1:03.7 | asked us a question with this suburban myth baked right in. |
| 1:04.7 | Here it is. |
| 1:08.1 | What is half-day road in the northern suburbs a half-day from? |
| 1:11.3 | Who made the trip, and in what kind of vehicle? |
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