I didn't know about the sale.. :-(
It was still tasty in 2010 when I dragged a couple of motly Pdml'ers there .. we went to Due.  I agree totally about your Waukegan comment.. I ate thin crust on the far north side in high school... can't remember the place I want to say Gino's..

DIdn't even know what Pizza was when we lived on the south side.. moved away when I was 8

ann

On 4/18/2021 8:29 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
Unos and Duos ain’t what they used to be. They were sold, franchised and pretty 
much destroyed. Last time I was at Unos it was very ordinary. In any case derp 
dish pizza was pretty much a Johnny come lately in Chicago. The real pizza of 
Chicago’s Italian immigrants is thin crust, decadent and cut into small 
squares. Italian bar owners started serving it more than a century ago. It’s 
sometimes called tavern style. The crust is thin and rich but not cracker-like. 
A bit of corn flour on the bottom adds texture. Sauce goes generously atop the 
crust followed by hearty hunks of loose sausage and topped fully with premium 
mozzarella. The cheese floats on the sauce and sausage grease. Done right, as 
it is in many places particularly on the south side, It’s to die for. There’s 
probably at least one good pie joint in Waukegan but it won’t bear any of the 
names popularized by the tourist crowd. It’ll be small, probably next door to a 
bar, and it will have a name like Vito and Frankie’s.

On Apr 17, 2021, at 11:22 PM, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

 You won't be passing through Chicago to and from the airport .. .  Wauegan is 
one of our burbs.. and 2 miles north is the town of Zion where I was staying
  when the 2010 PDML exhibit was on... at my oldest friend's daughter's home 
was and where friend spent her last years of life.. the banner on my web page 
was taken in the Illinois Beach Nature Preserve  - essentially in Waukegan.  
There is a woodland trail there along the lake.  O'Hare airport  is south west 
from Waukegan and North west of Chicago proper..

Sorry you aren't really staying in the city... but you can get stroll along the 
shore of Lake Mich in that state park on along the woodland trail.. such
a different look than what you are used to.

ann




On 4/17/2021 10:21 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Ann,

I've only been in Chicago a couple of times and very briefly at that … Never 
had any time to learn the city.

I'm not actually going to be in Chicago much on this trip either: I'll spend 
most of my time a bit up-state in Waukegan. It's mostly a pass-through Chicago 
on the way from and to the airport.

Yeah, the pizzerias may all be takeout only. Sigh.

G

On Apr 17, 2021, at 5:36 PM, ann sanfedele <ann...@nyc.rr.com> wrote:
Yes!  .. but don't call it's location "downtown"  there is no"downtown" in Chicago in the 
sense you mean .. in Chi town it is "the Loop"  so called because part of the elevated section of 
the subway system makes that shape ..

Uno's has a sister location nearby which is a bit larger and absolutely the 
same pie - and my fave of the two locations.. BUT
looks like they are just doing take out due to THE virus.. it is at the corner 
of Wabash and Ontario. .. Possibly Uno is only takeout/delivery.


What hotel are you staying in?  We should talk when you are on your way or 
there..

Is it possible you have NEVER been to Chicago?

hugs,
ann

On 4/17/2021 8:02 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote:
Thank you, Ann!

Is that the Pizzeria Uno on E Ohio Street in downtown Chicago? There might be 
time to make a stop there… :D

I don't know exactly how much of my time there will be taken up by business, 
most of the time I'll be up in Waukegan area. But if there's time, and dinner 
calls, a bit of the original Chicago deep dish pizza sounds real good! I might 
have a full day to spare on my hands..

Yes: I posted that set of photos some time around November 2019.

G
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