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WThe Wild #airports#animals#birds#chicago#viral-video

A loose green bird spends hours pecking travelers at O'Hare's Terminal 5

An airport worker's video and one line that says it all: the bird 'chose fight, not flight.'

An exotic green bird, possibly a parrot, flew into Terminal 5 at Chicago O'Hare International Airport and perched on passengers' heads and luggage near the Air France check-in line, pecking anyone who tried to catch it, UPI reports. The visit was on Oct. 13, according to the worker who filmed it; the videos spread in the following week.

Paris Elbert, the O'Hare worker who filmed it, told CBS Chicago the bird "chose fight, not flight." A janitor eventually caught it in a shirt and took it to a veterinarian to be checked and scanned for a microchip.

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TThe Table #chicago#food-trends#pizza#tavern-style-pizza

The 'tavern-style' pizza takeover: the Midwest's cracker-thin, square-cut pie goes national

Eater explains why the pizza Chicagoans actually eat every week is turning up from Portland to Washington.

Eater reports that "tavern-style" pizza, the thin, cracker-crisp pie cut into a grid of squares that is common across Chicago, Milwaukee, Minnesota and St. Louis, has spread coast to coast in recent years. Brittany and Brennan Grosvenor, Chicago-suburb natives who run Proof in Portland, Oregon, say tavern-style, not deep dish, is the pizza Chicagoans eat every week.

Bradley Shorten, behind Kim's Uncle Pizza in Westmont, Illinois, and the recently opened La Merna in Washington, D.C., tells Eater the grid cut yields more pieces, works as drinking food and puts toppings on every square, and that the small corner pieces are the ones "everybody goes for."

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Signal CheckA real regional style, now a trend story

How much is substance, and how much is paid or hype?

The voices here are pizzaiolos who grew up with the style and now sell it, not paid promoters. What holds up: tavern-style is a long-established Midwestern pie, not an invention for social media. What to watch: "tavern-style" on a menu far from the Midwest is a label, so judge the crust, not the name.

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