Back in the day, the toll booths were only 73 feet apart, so Chicago is proudly making progress on this! Chicago has also replaced their original automatic toll collecting machines with modern toll booths. Those first toll booths were nasty, nothing more than scuffed metal baskets, where drivers pulled up and were required to throw arbitrary amounts of change into them, this one 65 cents, the next one 20 cents. If you missed the basket, there was a sign nearby threatening you with imprisonment. The implication being this: "Here in Illinois, we mean business!" There was usually enough loose change strewn on the ground to buy a hamburger at Howard Johnson's, and I once heard a story of how one Chicago resident scooped up enough change in this way to buy White Sox season tickets. But here again, there is progress. The new toll booths are now staffed with White Sox, Cubs, Bears, and Black Hawks fans, who pass the time between vehicles by longingly looking upon the license plates of vehicles from other states. The downside of these new toll booths is that they now cost a buck fifty. But at least you can get exact change, so long as you help the guy in the booth with his arithmetic. Maybe a Chicago native and White Sox fan can come on the thread and confirm this information for us, so that we can banish them from this website. Oh, I'm sorry, what was the question?