I’ve always lumped Chicago-style hot dogs—the ones with tomatoes and pickles and a pile of vegetables—in with other overrated American regional classics, such as Pittsburgh’s Primanti ...

A Chicago culinary treasure is going national: Pizza Hut just announced that it will now be serving tavern-style pizza to the masses—and we don't know how we feel about it. While most of the ...

Pizza Hut has launched a new pizza format, Chicago Tavern-Style Pizza, along with several new pizza toppings. Tavern pizza is a thin-crust pie usually sliced into squares that is widely eaten in ...

Chicago’s first pizzeria, Granato’s, opened in 1924 on Taylor Street, but pizza did not become popular among the local masses until the early ’40s, after the end of Prohibition. It was ...