A favorite of Barack Obama’s, featured in Slim’s Table. On Harlem Avenue’s Italian strip, known for wood-fired pizza with a charred crust, solely the third Chicagoland pizzeria licensed by the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana. Obviously the pandemic has been an especially annoying time for restaurant staff and house owners, with exposure risks, continuously shifting security protocols, lowered income, and layoffs. Even now, labor shortages are a major problem, and with Delta variant hospitalizations on the rise among the unvaccinated, there are fears of one more lockdown. But hopefully this map will bring more business to a few of Chicago’s undersung eateries, doing slightly bit to assist them climate the storm. I’d made good progress by March 2020 when COVID-19 hit Chicago.
