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By Chuck Sudo in News on Feb 9, 2010 11:00PM

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  • Mayor Daley's son Patrick has been called back to active duty in the Army. [Clout Street/Tribune]
  • A woman who abandoned her 3-year-old nephew at a south side firehouse Monday night said she was in the military and had to catch a flight later that night to Virginia. [Chicago Breaking News]
  • After being played by the International Olympic Committee, Pat Ryan is getting back into the insurance game. Ryan is starting a new firm, Ryan Specialty Group. [Crain's]
  • Lee Bey compares Pullman after a snowfall to being in a snowglobe. [Lee Bey/Vocalo]
  • The complete and utter failure of Chicago's parking meter privatization isn't stopping other cities from using Our town as a model for similar privatization plans. [Clout City/Reader]
  • CBS2's "Monsters and Money in the Morning" scored a live, in-studio with Sam Zell last week... and didn't ask him a single question about his ownership of Tribune Co. [Feder/Vocalo]
  • City health inspectors dumped more food from the shared kitchen space Kitchen Chicago yesterday. [Chicago Public Radio]
  • Charlie Trotter's sous chef, Jennifer Petrusky, won "Best Fish" honors at the U.S. Bocuse d'Or competition. [Sun-Times]
  • Kendall College student Brian Schreiber recently won the S. Pellegrino® "Almost Famous Chef®" North Central Regional Competition. [Inbox]
  • Liz Phair writes about attending a NASCAR event and an eco-conscious design conference for The Atlantic Monthly. She's come a long way from "Fuck and Run." [The Atlantic Monthly]