Chicago, our home city, is known for a particular foodstuff, a gastronomic icon of the city. And no, it is not Deep Dish Pizza, which a) isn't pizza, but instead a "lasagna based bread product," as Ruben Bolling put, and b) nobody from Chicago ever eats. Ever. (I checked.).
No: what we eat is the Italian Beef sandwich, which isn't Italian, as far as anybody knows, but is beef. And the iconic place to get an Italian Beef is "Mr. Beef" on Orleans St.
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