Chicago Way w/John Kass: Revolutionary times
The Chicago Way
WGN Plus
4.7 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | If you're purchasing a new home or refinancing your existing home, then you need to call Team Hockberg, your trusted local lender. |
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| 0:17.5 | Some of you may know that I grew up in a family business run by my dad, a grocery store, |
| 0:23.9 | but it had a butcher shop. |
| 0:25.5 | It was known far and wide on the southwest side, and I know that quality means something. |
| 0:31.1 | And that's why we drive two hours from northwest Indiana all the way to the northwest side of the city of Chicago to Joseph's |
| 0:39.5 | finest meats at 7101 West Addison Street. Before you go there, you've got to be prepared, so I've got a |
| 0:46.2 | list for you. Do you have a pen? Italian sausage hot. Italian sausage mild. Get pork chops, but order them thick. |
| 0:55.4 | And of course, get some beef too, like bone in ribby steaks. |
| 0:59.4 | Nothing like it. |
| 1:00.4 | And if you don't know exactly what to get or how to cook it, ask Ben or sell and tell them, |
| 1:07.1 | John Cassing. |
| 1:08.3 | And I'd like to tip my hat to Joseph, the patriarch, the owner, the founder, |
| 1:14.3 | who built this store for his family with his two sons, Ben and Sal. In his mid-90s, he had |
| 1:20.7 | serious heart surgery and he made a triumphant return. He loves his place. And I do too. And so does anyone who shops there. |
| 1:29.5 | It's like family. They care about the details. They care about you. Joseph's finest meets |
| 1:34.9 | 71.01 West Addison Street, Chicago, a family tradition since 1977, and a proud sponsor of John Cass News and the Chicago Way podcast. |
| 1:49.8 | Are we really in revolutionary times? Jeff Carlin thinks so, and I agree. I think how can you |
| 1:56.5 | think otherwise? But where does the revolution start and where does it end? Did it ever end? |
| 2:03.2 | Or we've been 250 years of revolution. We're talking about all this with Jeff Carlin, |
| 2:10.2 | executive producer WGN Radio. And I'm John Cass, editor-in-chief of John Cass News. And where are you? |
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