It's Wolfy's and it's not downtown.

FAIL!

Not downtown.

FAIL!


Seriously, thanks for the suggestions. I'll have to give Portillo's a try.

I never found a good hot dog place downtown. Lots of great pizza. Went to the Bulls game and had a great hot dog.

Yeah, a fail on your part for not catching a bus.

Portillos is great, but it is a chain. There's one a couple of miles from my house. Never get the hot dog, but they have an excellent beef and cheddar croissant sandwich.

One thing you should try if you haven't that's unique to this area is the Italian beef sandwich (Portillos has them). Thin sliced beef on a bun, generally dipped in broth. You can get it with mozerella cheese. One of my best friends is from here but now lives in New York, and whenever he visits the first thing he wants is an Italian beef from the nasty little hole in the wall diner he's eaten at since childhood.

what area are you in fraz? im pretty sure i ate at the one close to you for some reason. cant for the life of me recall the name of the area....
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I'm in Naperville. Portillos are all over the area, though.

hey dartgod you could hit up an outlaws clubhouse. just walk up and knock. :)



just kiddin, hell you cant even enter the pisser if you arent an outlaw, all others use the porta poddy outside lol
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nope thats the spot. we were there for my bros funeral and back for the benefit.
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I keep hearing that. I'll have to check one out.

bump

Avoid the Clap/Jimmy Dugan

I'm heading up there for the first time, aside from connections, in August. A friendly bump.

Nice bump. I'm thinking of heading up in August for Cards-Cubs.

Have our hotel choices narrowed down to Hotel 71 and Hotel Monaco. Both are right on the river and are close to the red line that will take us straight to Wrigley. Probably going to be up there Thurs-Sun, going to the game on both Friday and Saturday afternoon.

We've already done most if not all of the touristy stuff on other trips - the only things I absolutely want to do this time around is hit Portillo's, and do one of the Chicago River Architecture Tours.

And of course, we'll be hitting Yolk every morning - best breakfast place ever.

We loved Yolk's too.

Allerton is nice. Robert Allerton's family founded the Chicago Stockyards. Trivia for the bar. Allerton Park is now owned by the Univ of Illinois. Huge arts benefactor.

Ginos East for Pizza.
MOSI a must.