In terms of one level per day, it's averaging one every two days, with occasionally doing one every day (every 15th day or some such). But the levels are more powerful than before. If anything, I'm worried the progression here may be too generous compared to what it was before, but we'll see.
The city map thing is news to me, that's very strange. You can't click the red locked ones of course, but I don't know why there would not be tooltips. I'm not at my computer right now, but make sure you post a savegame to mantis with things like that. And what your screen resolution is with that particular one.