"chicago style pizza" news and stories

The cool pizza blog Slice has a definitive (maybe) list of all of the different types of pizza that you can find in the United States.

Now, they go beyond just thin crust and thick crust and really get into regional differences, including New York Style, New York-Neopolitan, New Haven Style, Chicago Thin Crust, and many others. Not sure about some of the choices though. I mean, is "bar pizza" a definite style, even if it was invented in a certain place? And what exactly is Midwest Style, when that probably means a lot of different sizes and cooking methods and tastes?

And as someone says in the comments on that page, New England isn't represented at all! Still, it's a good list.

Answer: no.

But this piece in The Chicago Tribune is interesting , if only for the fact that I didn't know that a lot of people from Chicago think that there isn't good deep dish pizza outside of the Windy City area. That's not true. For example, in the Boston area, deep dish pizza has been around for decades and is as popular here as thin crust pizza. In the mid-80s I worked at a pizza place and all we sold was deep dish. I've found that much of the pizza that people rave about in the big cities is actually overrated, whether its thick or thin crust. But there's a lot of good pizza out there.

I like both deep dish pizza and thin crust. It all depends on what mood I'm in.