I don't get why anyone who lives in Chicago would eat any of this crap, though.
Sadly, all the great mom and pop places that once made Chicago the greatest city for pizza on earth have left/quit or gone chain corporate with watered down quality. What sucks even more, younger generations don't even know what they missed. I just turned 40 last month, and even I know I may have missed the tail end of a great thing. So now we either have to make it at home or settle for what is essentially fast-food pizza.
All the best Pizza places
now, were considered among the worst just a few decades ago, and IMO that is very sad. Just like the hot dog places and beef joints. Yes, some of those places got better over time, but they will likely not be as good as when Chicago was the world's hub for meat packing, farming, cheese, and a far more diversity in layers of immigrants. Back then to have the best of all fresh ingredients, it was wholesale prices for the restaurant. Where today, adjusted prices can only afford a businessperson (in an industry that has a ton of failures) a fraction of that. I guess that's why some of the shitty places stood the test of time, they were using cheap ingredients before it was cool.