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Chicago Mayor Richard Daley has been pushing for a $6.6 billion expansion of O'Hare International Airport. He wants American and United — the airlines that handle the majority of O'Hare's daily flights — to help fund the project. But the airlines have sued the city and put off a meeting.

Pick an event, any event. The upcoming Super Bowl. Or the recent State of the Union address. More and more, it seems that we are caught up not so much in the event itself — the football game, say, or the president's speech — but in the events around the event.

Wind chills dipped to nearly 30 below zero in parts of the nation's midsection as the region grappled with the effects of a storm that unloaded as much as 2 feet of snow in Chicago, left much of Texas under a hard freeze warning and caused the deaths of at least a dozen people.

Pro-government supporters and opposition protesters battled in the capital's central square using rocks and Molotov cocktails hours after President Hosni Mubarak said he planned to serve out his term. Egypt's military largely stood by while calling for an end to the demonstrations.

A colossal blizzard roaring across a third of the country crippled the nation's heartland with ice and snow, shuttering airports and schools and leaving normally bustling downtowns deserted.

The Oscar nominations are in and they include some of the films we'll be talking about today, including Biutiful, the animated French film The Illusionist. We'll find out about an indie documentary called Marwencol and the latest from French director Claude Chabrol.

To show their commitment to bipartisanship, some Republicans and Democrats have pledged to sit with a member of the other party while listening to President Obama's speech Tuesday night. That's led pundits and lawmakers alike to bestow a new nickname on the usually solemn State of the Union: Date Night!

There's more to a great Superbowl party menu than chips and salsa. On this month's Food Hour, we huddle to discuss the best food for your superbowl party. And how everyone, men included, can get in the pre-game food prep.

On Tuesday, President Obama will give his State of the Union address. For anyone playing parlor games at home that night, expect words like "jobs" and "competitiveness," but not as many like "Iraq" and "Afghanistan."

Authorities blamed the freeze for at least two deaths as a major storm made its way through the region. Dangerous conditions closed schools, government offices and businesses from Texas to Georgia.