As of yesterday morning, Chicago's gas prices are the highest of any place in the country - $4.49 a gallon. To find the cheapest, you'd have to move to Tucson, Arizona, where it's $3.48 a gallon.

14 tons of Oreo cookies spilled across an Illinois highway on Monday. When will our nation's tragedies come to an end?

Pimprov (at right) in the Trib: "The Effects of Raw, Unapologetic Black Humor on an Unsuspecting White Audience...a slick piece of meta-improv built around a simple premise: A quintet of pimps took some improv classes at Second City and decided to moonlight. But the show was more than just flashy costumes, big hats and, in the case of ringleader Grand Finale (creator Marz Timms), a belt with a scrolling light display."

Bastion editor Elizabeth McQuern (hi, that's me!) was last Friday's Honey Shot on The Apiary, our Big Poppa in New York. Thanks to all the commenters who piled on with positive contributions.