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Ever have donut den in Joliet?
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Speaking to your off-topic point, a lot of suburbs have started "buy local" ad campaigns. I don't really know how effective they are. Some things will never change like local hardware stores aren't going to be thriving over Home Depot/Lowes. I personally try to avoid most chain restaurants if I can. I try to go to independent places or places that have recently just started expanding (There's a a brick oven pizza place in Lombard that I love that started in 2007 and expanded to Naperville and Wheaton in the past few years. DMK Burger started out in Chicago and expanded to Lombard as another example).
Where I like now in GDH, I'm surrounded by chains though, so its difficult to find independent places, but I often don't have to try too far to find something.
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Really? Can't wait to try them!
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You sound like my dad :lol: we have a family rule that on vacations we won't eat from any chain place. For example if we go out to eat breakfast, Denny's, IHOP, etc are all not allowed. Why eat at Applebee's in Florida on vacation when you can have Applebee's anywhere?
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It's no coincidence that the best restaurants I have ever been to, are all exclusively local. Local places take advantage of the best locally available foods, are competitive, improve recipes, and offer the visitor a unique experience. It's also no coincidence that the worst restaurants I have ever been to are also local and run down, worse than a Burger King that cleans the kitchen once a month. The good thing is, today you can find a lot of sites with reviews to narrow choices. So it's not a shot in the dark.
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And the chips.
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That's actual a personal rule of mine as well. The exception being In n Out and similar places because we don't have that in the Midwest. I always try to go for a local place when I travel because I want to try new things. Often times, those small places are really good. Unless they're run down like Crys said
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Yeah, I make a point to do that on vacations to go to places I can't go at home. Sometimes those places end up being chains though (Sometimes I don't even know).
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Why just on vacations? 
Shoot, none of us(that are active in this topic) live in bumfuck nowhere. Loads of local places still exist. Just not as many as some of us would like.
Shoot, none of us(that are active in this topic) live in bumfuck nowhere. Loads of local places still exist. Just not as many as some of us would like.
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Vernon Hills doesn't really have that many local places. :shrug:Why just on vacations?
Shoot, none of us(that are active in this topic) live in bumfuck nowhere. Loads of local places still exist. Just not as many as some of us would like.
There is a place called El Famous Burrito that is a pretty good Mexican place, but other than that, I haven't really encountered any non chain places.
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Do you like Sushi? I heard about an awesome sushi bar in Vernon Hills, but I can't remember the name.
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It's a chain, and if that is your good, I need to get you to some places out west and South
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I love sushi, but I have heard of no such sushi bar. There are sushi places in VH, one of them happens to be by the aforementioned El Famous and if there was any awesome sushi bar that would probably be it because everything else is an overpriced chain place. Trying to remember what that place was called...I'll get back to you on that
EDIT: the place I was thinking of is Krazy Sushi. I don't think it's anything special. And it's apparently closed now.
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lol is it a chain? had no idea. I don't think it's like the best place ever, but it was above average as far as Mexican places go. La Bamba definitely kicks its butt though as far as chain Mexican food goes.
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We have a local chicken place that IMO makes the best chicken fingers and sauce anywhere.
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Oh, don't you start with that now.
We all know chickens don't have fingers, and buffaloes don't have wings.
