Are carbs really bad for you? Does popping your knuckles really give you arthrits? And if kids shouldn't watch TV before age two, why did the Baby Einstein lady get a shout-out during the State of the Union address? Add one more confusing question that's particularly relevant to Chicagoans to that list: do we really need more area codes? Chicagoist pondered this back in December when we started noticing a new 224 area code for Evanston callers. After all those painful 312/773/708/630/847 splits, we thought we had plenty of numbers already, but alas, we chalked it up to progress. It's not like we actually memorize phone numbers anymore. more ›