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In the process of shoveling out our cars…Yaris, done-ish. Rabbit, not so much. 

Bar-to-Grocery Store Ratio (via Consumerist)

Back off Madison and Duluth – Wilco belongs to Chicago! (from WBEZ Blog)

Anyone who knows Wilco knows they’re a Chicago band through and through. Just glance at the cover of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot or listen to the tune “Via Chicago” for proof. Now some of our regional neighbors are trying to bask in the band’s glow. First it was Duluth, Minnesota. When the band played there on February 19, Mayor Don Ness met with the band before their show and made an official mayoral proclamation of Wilco being an “Honorary Duluth Band.”

When Wilco played Madison, Wisconsin the next day, The Cap Times reports that Tweedy taunted the city for not recognizing them after playing far more concerts there than Duluth. Alderperson Satya Rhodes-Conway was at the show and was approached by several constituents, who wanted Wilco to be recognized. She rose to the challenge and introduced a resolution claiming Wilco as honorary Madison citizens. Madison’ alderpeople (that’s what they call ‘em in Madison) can’t make proclamations, so the resolution still has to be adopted by the full council at their March 2 meeting. So far the mayor and nine out of twenty council members have sponsored the measure, so has a good chance at passing.

This got me wondering if Chicago had ever taken similar measures to recognize Wilco. After all, we have ‘Talk Like Shakespeare Day’, ‘Smashing Pumpkins Day’ and ‘Diddy Day.’ Surely there must be something on the books for Wilco. Not according to David Daskal (and everyone else I spoke with at the Mayor’s Office of Special Events and the Mayor’s Correspondance Office). Daskal said there’d never been much demand for special recognition….

Luc Longley: Bull, Bidder, Science Winner (via Chicagoist)

Former Chicago Bull Luc Longley has a few NBA championship rings and therefore probably has a few thousand dollars lying around. But instead of buying a car or a bigger house, Longley has done something a tad more unusual: he bought the naming rights to a new shrimp discovered off the coast of his native Australia….

Was Mighty T. Rex ‘Sue’ Felled By A Lowly Parasite? (via ScienceDaily)

When pondering the demise of a famous dinosaur such as ‘Sue,’ the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex whose fossilized remains are a star attraction of the Field Museum in Chicago, it is hard to avoid the image of clashing Cretaceous titans engaged in bloody, mortal combat.

It is an image commonly promoted by museums and dinosaur aficionados. Sue’s remains, in fact, exhibit holes in her jaw that some believed were battle scars, the result of conflict with another dinosaur, possibly another T. rex.

But a new study, published in the online journal PLoS ONE, provides evidence that Sue, perhaps the most famous dinosaur in the world, was felled in more mundane fashion by a lowly parasite that still afflicts modern birds. The study, conducted by an international team of researchers led by Ewan D.S. Wolff of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Steven W. Salisbury of the University of Queensland, Australia, pins the demise of Sue and other tyrannosaurs with similar scars on an avian parasitic infection called trichomonosis, caused by a single-celled parasite that causes similar pathologies on the mandibles of modern birds, raptors in particular.

It is possible the infection in her throat and mouth may have been so acute that the 42-foot-long, 7-ton dinosaur starved to death….

Chicago: Where Big Macs Are The Most Affordable (via Chicagoist)

Alligator Reported In Chicago River (via Chicagoist)

This happens way too often…they must be breeding

Library graffiti at the University of Chicago (via Laura/Oppie/L’opps, LA Times)