Chicago’s Tech Scene Faces Competition From All Sides

I had been up most of the night driving through snowy, icy Illinois to keep the van warm while my mate slept in the back. We had no sleeping bags, so we were freezing. Finally, exhaustion overcame me and I pulled up into a car park

Suddenly, a terrible bumping and the sound of my friend screaming. I thought we were in an earthquake, or a nightmare.

I had turned the engine off, instantly fallen asleep and kneed the column shift into neutral. The van had self-reversed across the car park! It was only the packed ice around the edges that had stopped us falling 100 meters into an electricity pylon. We got out in a daze, looking at the van as it balanced on the ice. Read more…

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