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As the work week slowly grinds down, I've lined these articles up for consumption tomorrow morning: Paul Krugman has thoughts about Fitbits. Chicago is going ahead with a $1bn plan to finish the O'Hare Modernization Project. Elsewhere in our fair city, a Meetup group walks the entire length of a Chicago street once a month. I might join. Monkeys can't own copyrights in the U.S., even for their own selfies. And now it's off to the barber shop. And then the pub.

Now that O'Hare's runway 10R/28L has opened, travelers on flights unlucky enough to land on the new tarmac have reason to be unhappy: The normal taxi route from new runway 10 Right to the gate follows parts of three taxiways to wind around one runway instead of crossing over it, which would create potential collision risks. But the taxi route then requires a turn to directly cross a different runway — staying behind planes that are taking off on that runway — followed by another turn, and then another...