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. Read more
List Price: $2.495 million The Property: During its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Northwestern Terra Cotta Company made Chicago the capital of architectural ornamentation. The company’s officers weren’t shy about using their products on their homes on Terra Cotta Row, a cluster of four homes on the 1000 block of West Oakdale in Lake View... Read more
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. Read more
