According to the latest basically meaningless yet weirdly post-worthy list from Forbes Magazine, Chicago is the most stressful city in America. The rankings used housings costs, cost of living, a city's air quality, the number of sunny days per year, and population density. So wait: Expensive, crowded, stinky, grey cities breed stress? Blink blink. Sayeth Forbes: "Chicago has a 7.3% unemployment rate, the eighth most polluted air in our ranking and in city where everybody......

Forbes's ever-healthy list mania continues, now with rankings of the most valuable NFL teams. According to the business magazine, 19 NFL franchises are worth more than $1 billion. The Bears are the ninth most valuable, worth about $1.1 billion, but according to the story, "the team does not generate sufficient revenue given its big market, great stadium deal and famous brand." [Forbes]......

Chicago is the fifth-hardest drinking city in America, according to a new analysis by Forbes, who's really feeling the ranking stories this week. We drink less than Austin, Milwaukee, San Francisco, and Providence. Providence? The report is based on people's responses to three questions: whether they had at least one drink of alcohol within the past 30 days; whether men had more than two drinks per day or women one drink per day; and whether......

In what can only be described as the upset of the decade, Forbes has named Oprah Winfrey its #1 celebrity on the magazine's annual Celebrity 100 list. She...won last year, too. To generate the list, Forbes estimates celebrity earnings, then factors in media metrics like Google hits, press mentions as compiled by Factiva, TV/radio mentions from Lexis/Nexis and the number of times an A-lister appears on the cover of more than 50 consumer magazines.......