CHICAGO — The fog is sort of going away! Here's what we're reading today.
Pizza Saves Lives: Not to make light of a hostage situation, but when a pizza app saves the day, it calls for celebration. On Monday a Florida woman who was being threatened by her boyfriend at knife point convinced him to use his phone to order a pizza through the Pizza Hut mobile app. In the app she snuck in the line "Please help. Get 911 to me" and "911hostage help!" Employees recognized the order from the frequent customer and called the sheriff's office to investigate, according to WFLA in Highlands County, Florida. “We've never seen that before,” the restaurant's manager, Candy Hamilton, said. “I've been here 28 years and never, never seen nothing like that come through."
RIP Trump Tower McDonald's: Bill Lawless Jr., who owns The Gage and The Dawson, among other Chicago restaurants, is taking over the McDonald's in between the Wrigley Building and Trump International Hotel & Tower, reporter David Matthews is reading in Crain's Chicago Business. Lawless signed a lease for the storefront at 405 N. Wabash Ave., which McDonald's is vacating this month to make way for Lawless' new, presumably nicer restaurant. “It's located between two of Chicago's most iconic buildings, looking onto the Chicago River,” Lawless told Crain's. “It has the potential to be a mini-oasis off Michigan Avenue, so I'm super-excited.”
Major in minors: Senior editor Andrew Herrmann is reading about Tyler Tumminia who, as a kid, got to hang around White Sox players (her father John has been a scout for the team for 30 years.) When she was a child, Robin Ventura gave her his spring training jersey. Today, Tumminia oversees five minor league baseball teams. "She was born into the game," Sox owner Jerry Reinsdorf says in a Boston Globe profile of Tumminia. "She's very smart and loves the game. She could be a president of a [major league] team, if not the owner." She says her interest in baseball comes from her dad: "My father and I have a unique relationship. We talk about things most fathers and daughters don't talk about: We talk about an array of body parts of men." Says proud pop John Tumminia: "She's a four-tool daughter."
Tyler Tumminia
Frida Kahlo's Wardrobe Revealed: The famous artist died in 1954, which is when her husband, Diego Rivera, locked up all of her belongings. It wasn't until 2004 that a photographer got a peak. Reporter Mina Bloom has been fascinated by Kahlo ever since she saw an exhibit focusing on her relationship with Rivera at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Turns out, Kahlo was pretty trendy, according to photos via The Guardian.
Oh, the Humanity!: The phrase is often made light of today, but its origin has a much sadder — and Chicago-based — history. Reporter Ariel Cheung was surprised to learn a WLS-AM reporter coined the phrase in 1937, during recorded coverage of German airship Hindenburg explosion in New Jersey. Poynter's story on the incident includes the audio from Herb Morrison's report.
Check Out that Dad Bod: The Chicago Tribune's witty report about chubby dad-esque figures suddenly in vogue is commendable in its ability to point out the double standards for women. "Men have long been pressured to live up to unrealistic fitness standards. We've endured relentless body shaming and had to navigate a world in which we're often pre-judged by our appearance. Wait, it's actually women who've had to do all that stuff," writes Rex Huppke.
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