Illinois — Food and Dining
Cuisine
Chicago is packed with over 7,000 restaurants of all types, serving food from around the world.
Regional specialties:
• Prime rib steaks.
• Deep pan Chicago pizza.
• Chicago-style hotdog (steamed/boiled all-beef sausage in a poppy seed bun).
• Soul food (African-American cooking).
• Tootsie roll (sweet cocoa-flavored chews).
Nightlife
Chicago boasts everything from nightclubs, jazz spots, cinemas and discos to belly dancing, rock bands and folk music. It is the home of ‘urban blues', a form developed by such greats as Muddy Waters and Elmore James, continued today in Chicago and around the world by performers such as Buddy Guy and Robert Cray.
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