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What We're Reading: Egg Donations Fetch $4K-$7K in Chicago

By  Andrew Herrmann and Jen Sabella | October 19, 2015 3:41pm | Updated on October 19, 2015 3:52pm

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What we're reading on this Monday? A trio of good ones:

Not chicken feed: Senior editor Andrew Herrmann is reading a New York Times story detailing the high cost of eggs. Not the chicken kind; the human kind. The piece describes the escalating fees paid to donors for human eggs and puts the payment in Chicago at $4,000 to $7,000. But all eggs are not created equally. The story includes a California firm, A Perfect Match, which pays $10,000-$25,000 for a first-time Asian donor. Others can get even more: actresses, models, Jewish women and Ivy League students with high SAT scores, among them. Demand is being driven by cancer survivors, older women and gay couples, the story says.

Homan facility, cont.: The Guardian continues its investigation into Homan Square, a West Side police facility where several Chicagoans say they were detained for hours or days without access to a lawyer or the ability to make a phone call. On Monday, the paper posted an interactive story explaining who was detained at the facility, and what they were brought in for. Overwhelmingly, it was black men brought in for drugs. The city maintains that all laws are followed at the facility, but several lawsuits from former detainees are pending. If you haven't read the Guardian's previous Homan Square coverage, it's a good primer.

They've really got the meats:  Eater reports that Gibsons, 1028 N. Rush St., took in $22.5 million last year, the most of any independent restaurant in the city. The numbers, based on Restaurant Business Online, put the Gold Coast restaurant is No. 10 nationally and has an average check of $73 (and, we'll add, worth every bloody cent.)

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