Gold Coast Dogs splits the ends of their hot dogs before char-grilling them to crispy perfection, giving a unique blooming flower-petal look to their otherwise classic Chicago style dog. Read more.
“A Chicago dog with the works” lets your server know that you want an all-beef hot dog in a poppyseed bun, served with all the toppings that make a Chicago-style dog famous. Read more.
Situated on this stretch of the former ‘record row,’ Vee-Jay Records was the largest, most successful R&B label of its time, and recorded blues greats like Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker and others. Read more.
Scenes from Transformers 3, depicting the final battle sequence between warring robots (Autobots and Decepticons) were shot here. Read more.
Two granite blocks mark the former spot of the Illinois Central Depot, or the Black Ellis Island, where 1000s of southern African Americans arrived to start new lives in Chicago - the Promised Land. Read more.
