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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]

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