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A Big Ol' Bean Fight Erupts Between Chi-Town And H-Town

Chicago and Houston are fighting over something very big or something very small — two beans. But there's a plot twist.
Visitors look over the Cloud Gate sculpture, also known as the "bean," in Millennium Park in Chicago, Illinois.

The Windy City and the Bayou City are fighting.

Depending on your perspective, it's over something very big or something very small - two beans.

Though Chicago and Houston have been longtime rivals, Houston's installment of an enormous silver art piece on Monday got people in both cities all fired up. Just wait for the plot twist.

Chi-town lovers say their problem is that the Houston Anish Kapoor sculpture,bean.

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