Beyond Deep-Dish: Exploring Chicago's Other Native Foods

Curious City

WBEZ Chicago

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🗓️ 2 September 2015

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

A list of meaty, messy and often obscure city originals that's meant to get you out of your comfort zone.

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0:00.0	When were the...
0:03.7	What school's...
0:06.0	Who decides what the next...
0:08.0	Where's that story?
0:09.3	Why they give the look?
0:11.2	What is this?
0:13.6	It's a curious city.
0:15.0	Where WBEZ answers your questions about Chicago, the region, and its people.
0:20.6	My name is Monica Ang, and I cover food for WBEZ.
0:24.5	I've been on the Chicago Beat for more than 20 years now, so I thought this week's question
0:29.1	would be a breeze.
0:30.2	It comes from Rebbe Kinsella, a computer technician in Beverly.
0:33.6	Almost everyone knows a deep dish pizza started in Chicago, and most people have heard of Chicago-style hot dogs.
0:41.0	But I am just wondering if there are some other foods that we don't know about that started in Chicago.
0:48.3	Off the top of my head, I could rattle off Italian beef, chicken Vesuvio, flaming Saginaaki,
0:53.9	and our signature molded cone of
0:56.0	Kronos Yiros. But Kinsella said she was looking for something lesser known, and no less exciting.
1:01.5	I didn't want to disappoint, so I added my own criteria. On top of being invented in Chicago,
1:07.2	I decided the dishes should come from different parts of the city. They should be on a menu for at least five years to prove they have staying power,
1:13.9	and they couldn't be served in just one restaurant.
1:16.7	Plus, I thought they should be affordable and even have catchy names.
1:23.4	Was this really possible?
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