For deep-dish pizza, many locals and visitors prefer to heft a slice at Gino’s, whose golden crust cradles a pound of cheese and ladleful of chunky tomato sauce. Bonus: you’re encouraged to graffiti the walls, staircases and chairs while you wait. Bring your own markers. There are several Gino’s locations around town. This one is the original and has the...

Giordano’s is our favorite in the gooey, doughy, deep-dish pizza pantheon. To be fair, it’s technically not deep-dish but rather “stuffed” pizza, which is built like a sandwich (layer of crust, then cheese, then more crust, then zippy tomato sauce ladled on top). The result is bigger and thicker than regular deep dish. Giordano’s has multiple locations around town. And...

Lou Malnati’s pizza places are located all around Chicago and its suburbs, but this South Loop location is handy for folks visiting the Museum Campus or attending a Grant Park festival. For background on Malnati’s as the brilliant inventor of deep-dish pizza, see our listing for the flagship Lou Malnati’s here.