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One of these days Chicagoist will be witness to one of those strange delivery-truck mishaps you hear about on the news, where unusual flotsam becomes strewn over highways and makes commuting a somewhat more amusing hell. We're holding out for a poultry truck ramming into one carrying marshmallow fluff. In the meantime, we have to settle for a hazmat scare yesterday in Hyde Park.

ORD Terminal Mystery?

As the rest of the media fawned over the new city council, and reminisced on the follies of councils past, other silliness was going on in the realm of politics in the City by the Lake. Let's take a look at what's up here in town: The Old Council Does One Last Thing. Following up on an issue that we wrote about a while back, it seems that the City Council's zoning committee has held...

We often sit around the Chicagoist office wondering how “Viagra Triangle” could get any more ridiculous and trashy -- with men throwing around money and women with implants and botox taking it all in -- it's just like the fairy tales of our youth. Lucky for us, our question was recently answered when, lo and behold, in swept attorney Corri Fetman and her billboard advertisement proclaiming, “Life's Short. Get a Divorce.” The ad sits atop the parking garage behind Gibson’s and features the headless torso of a man with 12-pack abs and a woman with very large breasts in a black lacy bra, a thong and thigh-high stockings. It reeks of class like a dumpster full of seafood scraps sitting in 100-degree heat for a week.

Did you guys hear about that watch that made it to eBay? It was Gary Familglietti's and was from the Bears' 1940s championship. Well, Al Baisi Jr. played for the Bears in the '40s and got a watch after the 1946 championship but lost it, so he bought Familglietti's watch on eBay for $8,100. Remember how they kept saying, "Don't worry, there will be a parking garage and restaurant ... just as soon as...

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The architectural preservationist signal went up all over town Thursday afternoon. On that day, the Commission on Chicago Landmarks went to vote on the fate of the Farwell Building, an Art Deco/French-inspired edifice at 664 N. Michigan. Prism Development Company, the Farwell's current owner, put their proposal in front of the board: To strip the outside of the 11-story landmarked building of its facade, demolish the skeleton, and reattach the facade to a newly-built 40-story...

"Gut Feelings" via pantagrapher.

One of the coolest ideas happening in the city right now is the push for environmental friendliness. In 2005 22 city buildings were registered as “green,” and all new city buildings are to be green designs. The idea is that as builders become familiar with doing green projects they will be comfortable adding green aspects to private projects, and of course take advantage of governmental incentives to do such. Green roofs are the Mayor’s biggest selling point, and they are all over the place on the Department of Environment’s website.

Ever drive around and around trying to find a place to park downtown? Believe it or not, there are 188 garages with about 25,000 parking spots, and now there's an online map so you can find them. chicagoparkingmap.com lets users enter an address or browse on the map to find city locations and the nearest parking garages to them. There's also an option to get directions from a location to a parking garage.

Hungry people at Popeye's on Wabash got more than fried chicken for lunch yesterday. They also got a face full of Volvo Sport SUV, hold the bun.

While not quite approaching the fever pitch the final Star Wars film achieved, there’s still plenty of excitement over Batman Begins, opening tomorrow in Chicago (and everywhere else in the country) before its planet-spanning mega-release this weekend.

Chicagoist was really looking forward to the hot stone massage we scheduled. Not to go into too much personal detail, but we seemed to have started to get a little high blood pressure lately, and thought getting regular massages might be a good way to relieve some tension and relax a little more. Our dad thinks the high blood pressure is genetic, but in reality, we got it the old fashioned way…we earned it. So imagine our irritation after checking in for the massage when we are told that the massage therapist had called in sick and our appointment was cancelled. Smoke actually emanated from our ears. “We tried to call you earlier, but figured you must have left your house already.” Caller ID is a great thing…when we got home, we saw that they had called 24 minutes before the appointment. Nice. If it had been the other way around, we would have been charged for the appointment. They had asked if we wanted them to check their suburban locations for openings, because nothing is more relaxing than sitting in traffic for an hour before and after a nice massage. Storming back to the parking garage we got madder and madder. To top it off, we used the garage near the Sun Times crater, and the jackhammers added to the already pleasant day, not to mention, no Bill Rancic in sight (Bill, call us!). We needed something to punch. How about bread?

The park enhancements will add 1,790 bleacher seats, a 100-seat restaurant overlooking center field and a five-story building and parking garage next to the ballpark. That building will include retail space, a restaurant and 400 parking spaces.

Get ready for some new stores around Chicago - Marsh Supermarket and Kohl's department store are on their way.