Northside Pizza guru.

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Figured something bad was up when he closed his place, he seemed like somebody who had to be working to be even marginally happy.

Only ate there once, too much rigamarole and I lived too far away. But others I know swore by it.

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"When people want their version of the truth, they go find it, no matter how baseless their beliefs." -- Ken Rosenthal

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

Did not know he was responsible for Gullivers as well.

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Sex isn't dirty, sex isn't a crime. It's a loving act between two or more consenting adults.

-Hank Kingsley

Burt's Place reopens tomorrow...

http://chicagoist.com/2017/03/01/belove ... e_reop.php

However, Burt is still dead, RIP.

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"This is Chicago, my friend. Anything can happen."

If the crust is burnt there's a good chance Burt was involved.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

And burnt crusts are a thing of the past.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

This place sounded terrible. Dirty and rude.

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Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

Ordering a pizza 24 hours in advance? Screw that.

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yeah true that.... once i found out that i lived within walking distance of a "legendary chicago pizza place" i had to sync things up to put in the 24hr call and try it once. and hey it was fine.... you know, not too dissimilar from a pequod's deep dish [from a cpl blocks away] but man oh man.... you know my grandpa donated all of his old radios to burt at one point cuz burt was all about old radios, so it's quite possible that if you've ever been to one of his places where there's old radios around that one of em might have been my grandfather's at some point!

RIP burt, your pizza may be what it is, people may bemoan the "pizza hipster" aesthetic.... but yeah, sheeeeeit, you did your thing and god bless you for that!

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My in-laws live 3 blocks from this place, yet we never ate there.

Over the past 10 or so years I tried to order a pizza from there a few times, but either nobody answered the phone or they weren't open.

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I like thinking big. . . If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.
-Donald J. Trump, BPE