Pizzeria
Home Run Inn (31st Street, Chicago)
One of the two families credited with originating Chicago's tavern-style pizza — a thin, cracker-style, square-cut pie that is the pizza most Chicagoans actually eat, in contrast to deep dish's tourist reputation. The original South Side corner still operates as a family business, now in its fourth generation.
Why it is here
One of the two families credited with originating Chicago's tavern-style pizza — a thin, cracker-style, square-cut pie that is the pizza most Chicagoans actually eat, in contrast to deep dish's tourist reputation. The original South Side corner still operates as a family business, now in its fourth generation.
What to order
sausage tavern-style pizza, cut into squares
What we looked at
Hand-pinched crispy crust, cut into squares, per the business's own accountFamily recipe traced to Bari, ItalyFourth-generation family members still involved as of the site's own account