Chicago is a popular summertime destination, but its famously frigid winters are just as fun if you’re willing to bundle up. Brave the cold for an enchanting visit to a historic and culturally rich city, with deep-dish pizza, ice skating, and live entertainment aplenty.
Dine on Deep-Dish Pizza and Other Chicago Classics
It’s not a visit to Chicago without sampling the city’s celebrated deep-dish style pizza. On a snowy day, there’s no food quite so comforting as a piping-hot pizza pie, loaded to a pound or two with flavorful tomato and globs of cheese. Asking a Chicagoan the best deep-dish pizza place can ignite intense debate, but in my research, Lou Malnati’s and Giordano’s top the list of contenders.Lou Malnati’s deep-dish pizza runs in the family: The eponymous Lou worked alongside his grandfather in the 1940s and 1950s to craft a pizza that would draw people to the bar, but eventually patrons began coming for the pizza itself. In 1971, the first Lou Malnati’s Pizzeria debuted in Lincolnwood, Illinois, and the recipe remains unchanged to this day.
