Is Chicago under attack?
August 15, 2015 1:15 PM   Subscribe

There seems to be an unusual amount of warplane-related activity in the skies over Chicago. Some sort of display-of-force? I've never seen anything like it.

Every three minutes or so, blue-and-yellow military aircraft go whizzing by the downtown skyscrapers, it is really making me nervous. Is Chicago under attack? I haven't been able to learn anything from the news. Saturday August 15th 2015, please tell my mother that I loved her.
posted by shipbreaker to Society & Culture (9 answers total)

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Chicago Air and Water show is going on today and tomorrow.
posted by skynxnex at 1:17 PM on August 15, 2015 [4 favorites]


Fear not.
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 1:17 PM on August 15, 2015


I'm not sure if you're trying to be funny, but a 2-second Google search revealed that there is an Air and Water Show there today.
posted by kimberussell at 1:18 PM on August 15, 2015 [6 favorites]


If you specifically care about the "blue-and-yellow military aircraft", those are almost surely the Blue Angels, the Navy's show team.
posted by skynxnex at 1:25 PM on August 15, 2015


If it helps your peace of mind any, the Blue Angels don't fly armed.
posted by Etrigan at 1:34 PM on August 15, 2015 [1 favorite]




However ...
posted by worldswalker at 1:55 PM on August 15, 2015 [1 favorite]


Seeing as it had already ended by the time you posted this. . . .
posted by crush-onastick at 2:36 PM on August 15, 2015 [3 favorites]


Likely the same answer as when you asked the exact question 7 years ago.
posted by Liver Killer at 4:21 PM on August 15, 2015 [12 favorites]


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