Nope definately a major management screw up.... Aircraft in the penalty box with all the gates full, all inbound crews were swapping, all outbound crews waiting for aircraft to come. NO ONE wanted to let the crews in the terminal take the aircraft that were already parked at the gates. On top of it dispatch was still sending planes to ORD instead of delaying them at the outstations, which they could have esp with the 30 min BMI CMI PIA AZO MSN GRB etc flights. All were still dispatched to ORD with this problem going on.