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Friday, July 3, 2009

Text size: increase text size text sizedecrease Computer problems shut down operations in hours

United check-in system crashes down around 3 and stayed until 10:30 of the third busiest travel holiday of the year, according to AAA and United Airlines.

Around 1.7 million people in Illinois are expected to travel this weekend, but most will run, AAA spokeswoman Beth Age.

United Flight 583, scheduled for Thursday, is still investigating the cause of the interruption, said spokeswoman Robin Urbanski.

Eight months pregnant and exhausted, Mary Ann Cuadrado just wanted something to eat.

She, her son Giovanny Ortiz, 14, and her nephew Jose Cuadrado, 13, of South folding, fabric .., around 4:30 Thursday. International Airport bound for O'Hare. Jose was scheduled to fly home in Puerto Rico at 8:30, but the massive computer problem canceled about 100 flights and delayed many more, including his. So they were left to Terminal 1, where planes depart, as thousands of others.

"We do not eat anything," a hungry Cuadrado, 32, said about 9:30 "We do not want to leave to buy something to eat."

To get some problems behind the counter counter staff to passengers manually controlled via mobile devices and laptops, United Express Vice President Cindy Szadokierski said. O'Hare also called employees at other airports, check-in passengers, O'Hare agent written boarding pass, Szadokierski said.

But the disappointment was evident in the faces of passengers as they waited to learn the fate of their flight.

Jameela Jawadi, 50, of Plainfield was in line waiting to check her 9:40 flight to Phoenix when it was canceled.

"I'm just tired, exhausted," said Jawadi fell overnight in a warm place in parliament.

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