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A map of Chicago using geotagged tweets shows the corridors of travel from one point to another, based on who’s tweeting from where. It mostly looks like you’d expect, with one mystery.

The USDA released new school-lunch guidelines today, which define how much tomato paste on a slice of pizza is equivalent to a vegetable, and doesn’t restrict potatoes… though the National Potato Council is still concerned that their prize product is considered a “second-class” vegetable.

After a long two years of trying to court the center with frustrated attempts at centrist bipartisanship, the White House tries a stump speech for the SOTU. The trick to the center? It’s not a “center.”

Twitter users: they’re just like us! And Chicago twitter users react to public trans just like everyone everywhere does, complaining when something goes wrong and tolerating the rest.

Newt Gingrich’s constant flogging of the Alinsky name has brought the legendary organizer back into the zeitgeist again. But it’s a clumsy attempt to tar Obama, not least because the Tea Party has found much more interesting uses of Alinsky’s legacy.

Chicago’s high hit-and-run rate, considerably higher than the national average; how the city’s most expensive restaurants rank; how our expensive El repairs rank; and more.