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Old May 11, 2002 | 12:20 am
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Cell tower in the middle of MDW

I'll let the powers to be get all huffy puffy and move this elsewhere - to early in the AM to think of where to put this.

Anyway, I found a near site that lists all of Sprint PCS's cell towers. It is searchable by city, state, zip, lat & long, etc...

http://www.sprintsites.com/tower/sitesearch.html

So I am bored and do a search on all the towers in IL. I take the latitude and longitude locations, convert to the format MS Streets accepts, import the data, and look to see where all the towers are. Kind of neat - get to see how they all bunch up near the interstates. Most popup around Chicago with a fair number on the east side of the Mississippi from St Louis.

Anyway, one of them pops up right in the middle of Midway! It puts it at :

N 41.78352 and W 87.7516
N 41D 47M 0.6S and W 87D 45M 5.8S

If you pull that up on a map and compare it to a diagram of MDW, it puts it almost dead center of the aiport, just about at the intersection of TWY Y and RWY 13R/31L. I know it must be a mistake, but thought it was funny nonetheless - keep those Southwest pilots on their toes!
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