The situation will sort itself out when the city reopens Navy Pier, the fair's preferred location.

Essentially, the city would close 33 schools and reopen them immediately, with new names and identification numbers.

In the late 90s, the city renovated and reopened an adjoining theater.

Due to over-crowding, the city reopened the closes some 40 years later.

The city has not reopened a contract with a municipal agency in 30 years, the officials said, and to do so now would set a bad precedent.

The anglers who happened into the store last week said they were angry that the city has not reopened the watershed property.

Finally, after 16 months, the city reopened it.

The city reopened the streets east of Broadway last night for drivers making drop-offs of goods or passengers.

Or, to raise a more significant question, why did the city reopen the bidding process?

"If the city should reopen the process, we would like to participate," he said.