The Windy City

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Don't forget about Chicago-style hot dogs.

 

[Chi City 81]

Don't forget about Chicago-style hot dogs.

Which, ideally, should be kosher and eaten with celery salt.

 

[Bob Cook]

Don't forget about Chicago-style hot dogs.

Which, ideally, should be kosher and eaten with celery salt.

AND NO KETCHUP!!!!!

Which reminds me, avoid tourist-trap restaurants like Ed Debevic's and the Billy Goat (yeah, I said it) at all costs.

 

[kingcreole]

Don't forget about Chicago-style hot dogs.

Which, ideally, should be kosher and eaten with celery salt.

AND NO KETCHUP!!!!!

Which reminds me, avoid tourist-trap restaurants like Ed Debevic's and the Billy Goat (yeah, I said it) at all costs.

Yeah, we'd love to get some real Chicago dogs. Once I was eating lunch in college with a buddy, and we went to go get the hot dog lunch. I put ketchup on mine, and he being a Chicago native, he about beat the **** out of me. He chewed me out the entire time we ate.

"You do NOT put ketchup on your hot dog!"

Haven't put ketchup on my hot dogs since.

 

[Chi City 81]

Don't forget about Chicago-style hot dogs.

Which, ideally, should be kosher and eaten with celery salt.

AND NO KETCHUP!!!!!

Which reminds me, avoid tourist-trap restaurants like Ed Debevic's and the Billy Goat (yeah, I said it) at all costs.

Yeah, we'd love to get some real Chicago dogs. Once I was eating lunch in college with a buddy, and we went to go get the hot dog lunch. I put ketchup on mine, and he being a Chicago native, he about beat the **** out of me. He chewed me out the entire time we ate.

"You do NOT put ketchup on your hot dog!"

Haven't put ketchup on my hot dogs since.

I usually get mustard, onions and celery salt (don't like tomatoes or relish). At Wrigley, I eat them plain.

 

[pallister]

Ah, celery salt.

 

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Ed Debevics isn't the worst idea for kids who are 8, 4 and 14 months...it's loud, and you can get milkshakes.

A block away you can get the same stuff at the Rock and Roll McDonalds, but the people can be somewhat gross.

As for the hot dogs, not worth haul with the kids, but there is none better than the Weiner's Circle, especially at at 4 am.

 

[Bob Cook]

Ed Debevics isn't the worst idea for kids who are 8, 4 and 14 months...it's loud, and you can get milkshakes.

A block away you can get the same stuff at the Rock and Roll McDonalds, but the people can be somewhat gross.

As for the hot dogs, not worth haul with the kids, but there is none better than the Weiner's Circle, especially at at 4 am.

For the same thing, you're better off at Portillo's, which across the street from the huge-ass Rock 'n' Roll McDonald's. Portillo's is a chain, but at least it's local. And the kids will love all the stuff they've got hanging all over the place, including a 1930s car. Or you can go to the Rainforest Cafe, another block away.

Around the same area you can get on various tour buses, including a black school bus for the Al Capone-ish tour. It makes one wonder whether, in 50 years, there will be buses for a Latin Kings or Vice Lords tour.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

The adults would definitely prefer Portillo's, but I'm betting the kids like Ed Debevic's better.

 

[Clerk Typist]

If you're in Romeoville, you're not far from where Route 66 turns and goes south. It runs along Joliet Road, then is partly wiped out by I-55, then reappears in Joliet. But be careful of some of the neighborhood there. The area around Silver Cross Field is reasonably good.
By the way, the Ryan (alongside Sox Park) is under construction and a holy nightmare. Get off I-55 (the Stevenson) and Damen, go south to 35th, then east to the ballpark.

 

[HeinekenMan]

On the north side of town, they have a great minor league baseball team. They play at a park called Wrigley Field.

 

[Bob Cook]

If you're in Romeoville, you're not far from where Route 66 turns and goes south. It runs along Joliet Road, then is partly wiped out by I-55, then reappears in Joliet. But be careful of some of the neighborhood there. The area around Silver Cross Field is reasonably good.
By the way, the Ryan (alongside Sox Park) is under construction and a holy nightmare. Get off I-55 (the Stevenson) and Damen, go south to 35th, then east to the ballpark.

Along Joliet Road (in Bolingbrook) is White Fence Farm, a humongous-ass fried chicken restaurant. Great, great food, lots of old-timey atmosphere, and the kids'll dig it. Dennis Hastert got fat at this place -- it was owned by his aunt for a long time.

 

[Oz]

Don't forget about Chicago-style hot dogs.

Which, ideally, should be kosher and eaten with celery salt.

AND NO KETCHUP!!!!!

No ketchup? That sounds un-American.

 

[pallister]

Putting ketchup on your hot dog can get you killed in Chicago. :)

 

[Oz]

Putting ketchup on your hot dog can get you killed in Chicago. :)

Exactly why is that? Just curious.

(And I'm glad no one noticed that I put ketchup on my hot dog at Wrigley.)

 

[pallister]

Mustard, onions and relish with celery salt; that's a Chicago dog.

 

[pallister]

A ******* dog? I don't know. But it does sound intriguing. I may have to try one, but not in Chicago. :)

 

[DanOregon]

You might also want to hit the Art Institute, its kid friendly, and take a boat tour on the Chicago River, the kids will like the boat ride and you'll learn about the architecture and ****...

 

[HeinekenMan]

and you'll learn about the architecture and ****...

And trust me...

There's a lot of **** in the Chicago River.

 

[kingcreole]

I see Kane County and Joliet are both at home the week we'll be there. Both look like they have decent ballparks, good prices, etc.