Illinois Restaurants

You won't find deep-dish pizza at this restaurant in Chicago, but what you will find is the best kept secret in the state.

It turns out, he is a fan of some of Chicago's most iconic restaurants.

If you're going to pick a favorite, you'd better spend some time checking out a whole bunch of eateries first. Well, Guy Fieri and the gang at Diners, Drive-Ins, & DIves have certainly done that, having covered Illinois nearly from top to bottom. Here's what stands above the rest.

Having several friends who work or worked in the food-service industry, I've heard the expression "If you can't afford to tip, you can't afford to go out" for many years now. However, a study on tipping habits from coast-to-coast shows that Illinois is the worst state in the nation for tipping...so what's our problem here in the Land of Lincoln with leaving the proper gratuity?

Romance is apparently alive and well in the state of Illinois, so you shouldn't worry about a shortage of eateries that really turn up the romance quotient. Of the 100 most romantic restaurants in the entire country, five of them are in Illinois, and only a short drive away.

The recently published list features the best 22 pizza places in the United States, and it must have been difficult for the study's authors to put it together. Why? Well, because there are approximately 75,000 pizza restaurants scattered from coast to coast, including Alaska and Hawaii. Did you think there were more or less of them?

Ten percent of the best restaurants in the nation. Food, atmosphere, service. This is Illinois flexing. Come and get it!

Restaurants in Illinois go out of business all the time but this one is owned by a very famous athlete.

We really seem to stack up at the door anytime a new restaurant opens for business, but when is the last time you visited an eatery that's been around since before Lincoln was president?

If you are considering moving out of the Northern Illinois area soon, please know there are certain things you will have to learn to live without...and you won't like it.