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Thursday, March 28
A Chicago River boat tour was ended prematurely on Sunday when the boat passed underneath the Kinzie Street bridge and got doused by an unwelcome rain of liquid waste from at least one of two charter buses that were passing overhead. From now on, I'm going to be packing an umbrella when I travel by boat.