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The Winner of Chicago's 2006 Vegetarian Restaurant of the Year Award
Home Run Inn in Chicago is a four star Italian restaurant. This is a great place. Located in the Grant Park Museum neighborhood, this very affordable restaurant has been around for the last 50 years. When you step inside the restaurant, you'll notice a family atmosphere. This restaurant features private rooms, delivery, and catering. This place is good for groups.
Home Run Inn Pizza continues to be a family owned and operated establishment with 8 restaurant locations and frozen pizza in over 20 states! The pizza is still made according to the original family recipe created in 1947 using only the highest quality ingredients. Delicious because of the one of a kind crust, perfectly balanced with a zesty tomato sauce and loaded with an abundance of cheese and toppings, nothing compares to a Home Run Inn all natural pizza. Please visit our website to see our other locations: Addison, Bellwood, Bolingbrook, Chicago-31st, Chicago Archer Ave, Darien, Melrose Park & Westmont.
The original location of this local pizza chain, this place is famous for its hand-tossed pizza (the only style offered); it hasn't changed much since the '40s. Other offerings include pastas, soups,...
citysearch.com - expert review - 07/10/2008
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The original location of this local pizza chain, this place is famous for its hand-tossed pizza (the only style offered); it hasn't changed much since the '40s. Other offerings include pastas, soups,...
citysearch.com - expert review - 12/16/2005
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I truly believe this is the best tasting pizza in the wold! I too have tried pizza from various locations around the country and I always come back home to Home Run Inn.
citysearch.com - user review - 03/03/2008
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3.0 of 5 stars.
The pizza here is cheap and they don't skimp on the toppings but it was so greasy that it kind of made me nauseous. I love pizza and no other pizza has ever had this effect on me.
yelp.com - user review - 02/03/2008
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I was born and raised in Chicago and on Chicago style pizza. I have heard many people say that they traveled to Chicago, tried the pizza and were not impressed. Why, because everyone goes downtown Chicago to either Ono's or Due's thick bready pizza. NOT real Chicago style. You have to move out of the heart of the city to find the great pizza places. Home Run Inn is one of the best, but don't count out Falco's either. Connie's pizza is also very good and Fasano's (Justice, IL.) is also note worthy, but not as good as the first two, which make their own italian sausage (fresh, not precooked), sauce, blend of cheeses and seasonings. They're great, can't be beat and nexy trip to Chicago, look em up in the yellow pages.
openlist - user review - 01/14/2008
I live in orland park why isnt there a home run in pizza in orland or tinley. we love your pizza. we have to go all the way to Downers Grove or the city of chicago. Please put one by us. thanks
openlist - user review - 10/31/2007
If your looking for a nice stop in ypour search for a good thin crust, try this one. Its preety darn good. even the freezer one isnt to bad! Try it with the pepperoni, its good and spicey! YUMMY!
citysearch.com - user review - 08/13/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I don't care what anyone says but this is by far Chicagos best pizza... What's not there to love about it. I went in w/ a group of 40 people and they had cleared space for us upstairs. The wait was…
yelp.com - user review - 07/19/2007
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Tastes just slightly better than their frozen pizza. So expensive I rarely go there. This one is in a bad neighborhood. Ones in Darien and garfield ridge are nicer but they rob you with their prices.
citysearch.com - user review - 07/02/2007
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I HAVE TRIED PIZZA FROM ALMOST EVERY STATE IN THE US AND NO PIZZA I HAVE TRIED STANDS UP TO THE CONSISTANCY AND GREAT TASTE OF HOME RUN INN.
citysearch.com - user review - 06/20/2007
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Grew up on this pizza and never found a substitute. How lucky we are in the Houston, Texas area to get their frozen pizzas in some of our grocery stores. Sure beats bringing an ice chest to Chicago to fill...
menupages.com - user review - 05/06/2007
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5.0 of 5 stars.
(correct address is 4254 W. 31st, out west, closer to Cicero Avenue) THIS PIZZA HAS CRACK IN IT. I CANNOT STOP EATING THIS STUFF.
yelp.com - user review - 03/11/2007
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citysearch.com - user review - 02/12/2007
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If you want the original Home Run Inn Pizza, go to 5300 south Archer Ave.. This resturaunt serves up the best hand tossed Pizza around and is what the 31st. street parlor used to be in its hey-day!
citysearch.com - user review - 02/10/2007
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The person who wrote the last review is NUTS!! Home Run Inn has the best pizza anywhere that I have tasted. I love it, and now that I no longer live in Chicago, I will have it whenever I return for a visit....
citysearch.com - user review - 01/12/2007
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I recently went to Chicago on vacation and I am the type of person that does alot of research on a place before I go. I wanted to eat at the best places in Chicago and I used this site as reference. I decided...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/09/2006
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This is some of the best pizza I have ever eaten and it was done to perfection, but I still have a hard time getting here because of the neighborhood is less than desirable.
citysearch.com - user review - 11/01/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
I love Home Run Inn pizza. There is something about the crust that I adore. It's thin with just enough around the edge to hold on to. It's crispy and buttery. Mmmmm-mmmmm, good!
yelp.com - user review - 10/05/2006
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1.0 of 5 stars.
Yuck. It tastes one of those Chef Boyardee kits you made when you were little.
yelp.com - user review - 10/05/2006
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I have never eaten in the actual restaurant, but my first choice in the frozen pizzas up here in Minnesota is Home Run Inn. Everyone that I have had try it is hooked. If ever in Chicago I'm sure to visit the...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/22/2006
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5.0 of 5 stars.
One phrase: Extra cheese and sausage with a garlic butter crust. The best tasting pizza I know. Maybe a little high on the price, but really well worth it. The delivery time can be a little…
yelp.com - user review - 07/27/2006
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I'VE BEEN EATING THIS PIZZA FOR 35 YEARS NOTHING COMPARES TO IT! I HAVE SPENT OVER $10,000.00 ON HOME RUN INN'S PIZZA OVER THE YEARS.
citysearch.com - user review - 07/18/2006
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I grew up eating and loving Home Run Inn's Pizza, I moved to Minneapolis, MN 16 years ago and resulted into eating Domino's or Pizza Hut which resulted in me making home made pizzas. Until recently I was told...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/17/2006
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I've been going to Home Run Inn Pizza on 31st street since I was a little girl. My father would take us faithfully every Sunday before we would visit my grandparents. I've had many many many Home Run Inn...
citysearch.com - user review - 06/24/2006
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the best thin crust pizza in chicago. i have tried many others but this is by far the best thin crust.
citysearch.com - user review - 02/08/2006
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This is overated pizza slop. They're eithe pre cooking the pizza or using their frozen ones.Even people I know who have been going ther for years say it's not like it used to be.
citysearch.com - user review - 11/26/2005
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nothing beats it .... just perfect ... not too soggy, not to cheesy, andnot heartburn!!
citysearch.com - user review - 11/08/2005
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I have to admit HOME RUN INN is the BEST I ever ate, it just taste different then all the rest and the crust is to die for it's not like any I ever tasted. A friend from England said this pizza would make him...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/27/2005
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this place is the best in chicago the crust excellent= lightly toasted the sauce excellent=not at all bitter, just the right seasonings the cheese excellent=great flavor and lots of it!!! i have been eating...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/22/2005
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I grew up Chicago, moved away 30 years ago, and Home Run Inn is still the best pizza I've found in all my travels throughout the U.S. My family and I still look forward to it when we are in Chicago.
citysearch.com - user review - 07/12/2005
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i grew up by home run inn. we would order once a week and their pizza was the best. now that ive moved farther south, i have tasted a LOT of chicago pizza, but NOTHING (to this day) compares to home run inn's!...
citysearch.com - user review - 06/07/2005
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Very good even the frozen pizzas are good. There are the only frozen pizza I buy!
citysearch.com - user review - 05/13/2005
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HRI IS THE BEST PIZZA ANYWHERE I HAVE BEEN ALOT OF PLACES AND HAVE YET TO FIND A BETTER PIZZA. TRY IT WITH GARLIC BUTTER CRUST AWESOME!!!!
citysearch.com - user review - 04/27/2005
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I live in Ohio now, but I grew up near Home Run Pizza, just over the 31st bridge and every Friday night my uncle would go and pick up pizza for everyone. Every time I go back home to visit, we eat Home Run...
citysearch.com - user review - 01/21/2005
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My husband is from Alabama and the first time I ever brought him to Chicago with me we ate at Home Run Inn. Now everytime we come home to visit he wants to go there. He says it's probably the best pizza he's...
citysearch.com - user review - 01/21/2005
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I have been going here since i was two or three. it was great food then and its great food now. Others try too copy it but dont come close. If you think deep dish is the best, maybe you need too try HOME RUN...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/04/2004
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AS A YOUNGSTER GROWING UP IN CICERO, MY PARENTS WOULD GET HOME RUN INN ON OCCASSION, IN MY WORLD TRAVEL OF 30 YEARS IN THE MARINE CORPS I HAVE TO SAY I STILL SAY HOME RUN INN IS THE BEST, THANKS FOR THE...
citysearch.com - user review - 12/12/2003
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I have grown up eating HRI Pizza. And I must say it is still some of the best tasting pizza around. While the location and the ambiance of the 31st location may be difficult for many (i.e., gangbangers arguing...
citysearch.com - user review - 12/12/2003
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I live in the neighborhood and I don't take my family this Home Run Inn.We take our kids to the other chains out in the suburbs and you WILL taste the difference.This is the pizza we remembered growing up.Try...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/08/2003
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When I think of Home Run Inn Pizza I think of the original resuarant on 31st street near Cicero Ave. Growing up in that neighborhood we used to walk there order a pizza and eat it on the way home. mmmmm mmmmm...
citysearch.com - user review - 04/23/2003
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I HAVE BEEN GOING TO HOME RUN INN PIZZA FOR ABOUT 50 YEARS! I HAVE BEEN ALL OVER THE WORLD EVEN ITALEY AND THEY CANT COME CLOSE! I MOSTLY LIVE IN MEXICO AND WHEN I GO BACK TO CHICAGO I BRING BACK A SUITECASE...
citysearch.com - user review - 03/21/2003
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We moved to San Diego 7 years ago and still make trips to Home Run Inn a regular part of our vacatiion plans whenever we come to town. Pleeeease branch out to San Diego..... We NEED real Pizza out here.
citysearch.com - user review - 02/10/2003
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This is literally the best pizza I have ever tasted. Every time I go to Chicago I HAVE to have it.
citysearch.com - user review - 02/10/2003
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The pizza is great at the restaurant. They also offer a frozen version in grocery stores which is also the best frozen pizza. just cook it right on the oven rack and its the next best thing to being at the...
citysearch.com - user review - 01/14/2003
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great pizza !!!!if you know anything about pizza. You will know that this pizza ranks supreme.
citysearch.com - user review - 01/09/2003
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I can not explain in words what exactly it is about this pizza that I will travel in rain, sleet, snow and the height of traffic to go and eat. It is to the point that I will literally eat at least two pieces...
citysearch.com - user review - 01/02/2003
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Was introduced to Home Run Inn pizza about 35 years ago. They would hire butchers from Jewel to make their own sasuage. They used only the freshes ingredients and still do to this day.
citysearch.com - user review - 12/24/2002
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best pizza in chicago! I'm a displaced chicagoan, living in Virginia, and when i crave a taste of chicago, I order from home run inn on the internet!
citysearch.com - user review - 12/24/2002
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I've been eating at the HRI since it was a tiny, one room bar in the 60's, and it was the best in town for many years, but they're kind of spotty these days. You can still get a real good one sometimes, but it...
citysearch.com - user review - 12/24/2002
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Home Run Inn pizza is the best pizza I've ever had! My job requires me to travel around the world, and nothing comes close to Home Run Inn. Even in Chicago, nothing can top it. And the dining facilities are...
citysearch.com - user review - 12/21/2002
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BEST THIN CRUST PIZZA I HAVE EVER HAD. NOT A HUGE FAN OF THEIR PAN PIZZA-IT DOESN'T COMPARE TO GINO'S OR LOU'S BUT IF YOU HAVE NEVER TRIED HOME RUN INN'S THISN CRUST PIZZA...YA GOTTA TRY IT!
citysearch.com - user review - 12/09/2002
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If you want the Real Deal in Chicago Pizza, Home Run is the place. The So-called Chicago Pizza's downtown are Over rated. HRI has the best crust and they make their own sausage. The frozen ones at Jewel are...
citysearch.com - user review - 12/05/2002
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This is a great pizza. I can't say enough about it, but maybe this will get my point across. I live in the northwest part of the country and travel across the coast back to Chicago often purschase their...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/30/2002
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The best pizza in the area and for miles around. New to our area.
citysearch.com - user review - 11/27/2002
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Home Run Inn pizza is an above average pizzeria. Good place for kids and adults.
citysearch.com - user review - 11/27/2002
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My favorite thin crust pizza great crust.... If they would only deliver....
citysearch.com - user review - 11/27/2002
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I still cant find the place without my father's help. Some of my fondest memories are of the 45 minute drive my father would make to get HRI pizza. I don't know what it is about there pizza....and it could be...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/26/2002
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I've been to 11 states and never had a better piece of pizza.
citysearch.com - user review - 11/09/2002
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No one can bet this classic Chicago style pizza...have been eating Home Run for over 30 years and will continue to do so...THIS IS CHICAGO PIZZA!!!
citysearch.com - user review - 11/06/2002
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I went to home run 40 years ago with my dad and my uncle when it was mainly a bar. It was the greatest pizza I ever ate. I still work in Cicero,Il and pick one up to take home in Worth, and it's the same pizza...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/06/2002
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North Siders (like me) think they need a passport to get to the South Side. A shame: the Home Run Inn has great pizza and real South Side prices. And it looks like a pizza joint: not the phony attempts to do...
citysearch.com - user review - 11/01/2002
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I think Home Run Inn has the tastiest Pizza in town because it smells great in the restaurant, and tastes even better. Their lunch buffet is indescribable, with many pizza varieties, dessert items and salads.
citysearch.com - user review - 11/01/2002
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Home Run Inn is the best pizza in the world nothing else compares to it. Nothing I ever tasted. That is the one thing I miss about Chicago is the Home run Inn pizza. Espicially after I lived down the street...
citysearch.com - user review - 10/29/2002
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Every part of the pizza is a classic - the pleasant bite of the sauce, the golden crust, the flavorful sausage. There is no shortage of any ingredent like some others. My parents used to go on dates at the...
citysearch.com - user review - 10/25/2002
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I love this pizza. The crust is perfect, always the right maount of sauce. The cheese is nicely browned. Even the frozen ones are good. Not fancy, but perfect "pizza joint" atmosphere. The service is friendly...
citysearch.com - user review - 10/24/2002
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The crust, sauce and ingredients are all first rate! This is a true Chicago pizza, still familily-owned and never a disappointment. Some of the other food items are also worth a try! Been coming here since...
citysearch.com - user review - 10/12/2002
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I also grew up in Chicago and Home Run Inn is by far one of the best pizza's in town,,,Chicago has many great pizza places and all are very good, I just love Home Run Inn's pizza the best. I always bring some...
citysearch.com - user review - 09/05/2002
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I was raised in Chiago & HomeRunn Inn was the place we would go as a family to have, the pizza now know as the Best Pizza in Town!!!! We now live in Dallas & we still have family there send us or bring Home...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/25/2002
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My family has been enjoying Home Run Inn Pizza since 1948. After we got transplanted to St. Louis, trips to grandma's always meant a few trips to HRI. I once drove to Chicago to pick up 10 pizzas for the...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/19/2002
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Home Run Inn has the best pizza of any pizza place in the world. The crust is heavenly, and the sauce is delicious. Adding to that is the baseball atmosphere. There is no place better!
citysearch.com - user review - 08/17/2002
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I have been eating HRI Pizza since I was born. My grandfather who was a butcher use to sell the sausage to HRI many many years ago. When I moved to wisconsin I found it very hard to get my fix until I found...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/15/2002
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Best pizza in Chicago in a family atmosphere. Quality menu overall.
citysearch.com - user review - 08/14/2002
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I really enjoy pizza. Its the perfect meal because you can personalize it to your liking. After trying so many (and I mean many) different restaraunts, I always come back to the best: Home Run Inn Pizza in...
citysearch.com - user review - 08/13/2002
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I'VE TRAVELED ACROSS THE USA, AND HAVE HAD THIS PIZZA SINCE I WAS 10 YEARS OLD AND I'M 43 NOW,IT'S STAYED THE SAME AND THAT'S A FOR A CHICAGO PIZZA STICKING WITH THE RECIPE THAT MADE IT GROW. THE THIN CRUST...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/30/2002
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Home Run Inn pizza is the best in the midwest. Keep up the good work. the pizza is very tasty. fills u right up
citysearch.com - user review - 07/30/2002
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ALTHOUGH THE QUALITY OF THE DOUGH AND CHEESE HAS CHANGED IT IS STILL THE BEST TASTING PIZZA. THE OWNERS NEED TO GO BACK TO USING THE ORIGINAL YEAST AND CHEESE. STOP LOOKING AT PROFIT OR YOU WILL RUIN THE...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/30/2002
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I grew up in Pilsen and this IS Chicago pizza for me! The best taste. Abundanza! Thick crusts are okay but they are not pizzas to me. Home Run Inn spoiled me for the real stuff.
citysearch.com - user review - 07/26/2002
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Biggest, and best pizza for the dollar. If You want Mega toppings, come to this little pizzaria in downtown Chicago in the Cicero Ave. district. I'll guarentee you won't find a better place. Homemade sausage...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/23/2002
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This pizza is what Chicago is all about. It is a working man's pizza, not fancy or to expensive. The best way to order it is simply with sausage to enjoy its true simplicity and magnificence. The crust is a...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/22/2002
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My dad who moved to CA never would eat any CA pizza -- didn't taste like Home Run Inn!
citysearch.com - user review - 07/19/2002
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The first place I ever had garlic pizza and it became my favorite! The crust is the best. I don't particularily care for the deep dish style Chicago Pizza, would rather have the Northern Italian type. So this...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/18/2002
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I have always enjoyed Home Run Inn Pizza. It is my favorite, and always will be. Home Inn Pizza has great crust and great toppings. I have been eating Home Run Inn Pizza my entire life, and I have never been...
citysearch.com - user review - 07/18/2002
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Old neighborhood pizza joint is the best in town. Second best in the world. (The best is in Grand Haven, MI). If you'r looking for something fancy - this ain't it. The name comes from the city park across the...
citysearch.com - user review - 06/10/2002
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you can tell a chicagoan, but you canit tell him much---about pizza, that is. the city is sharply divided when it comes to favorite pizza places, pizza styles, who was the first to do this or that to a pizza....
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i am originally from chicago but now live in southern california. this pizza is fantastic. i just saw on hri's website that costco carries it...
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according to legend, a baseball came crashing through the window of this former tavern, hit by a kid playing a game in the streets with his friends. who cares if this is true or not? since 1947, home run inn...
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the best thin crust onion garlic sausage pizza in the city!!!!!!
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in 1923 mary and vincent grittani decided to name their 31st street tavern home run inn after a hit from a neighborhood baseball game shattered the front window; in 1947 their son-in-law came up with a recipe...
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the true measure of any restaurant can be boiled down to one word - consistency. an unvarying goodness that prevails week in and week out over the course of time is what makes a restaurant successful. whether...
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a south side favorite for over 50 years...
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"home run inn is a family business dedicated to providing its patrons with quality food," says president joe perrino. the business dates back to 1923, when the grittani family gave the then-newly-purchased...
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listed as italian, because of dishes such as lasagne and pasta, but the stellar attraction is the splendid pizza this place has been pumping out since 1923. locations also in darien and arlington heights...
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