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City Shuts Down “Super-Bars”; Vital Juices Branches Out to Chicago

• The city closed the loop hole that allowed hookah lounges to exist as “super-bars,” which minors abused to drink underage. [Sun-Times]

• Vital Juice, a daily health and wellness website, launched a Chicago addition yesterday. [Biz Bash]

• As locavorism becomes more of a must, chefs are in competition for products from the best farms. [NYT]

• Purdue recalled almost 90,000 pounds of chicken nuggets yesterday after finding pieces of plastic in the meat. [NYDN]

• McDonald’s is serving fries made from locally grown potatoes in at least a few markets. [Good]

• Goldman Sachs angrily denied the World Development Movement’s accusations that the bank’s commodity trading has contributed to the global food crisis. [Telegraph]

City Shuts Down “Super-Bars”; Vital Juices Branches Out to Chicago