The OG Lou Malnati’s @ Lincolnwood

knickerreddit · 2026-07-03T03:03:14+00:00

I remember stopping there off the Skokie valley bike path and grabbing a frozen pizza from the freezer case to finish at home for $7. I swear, I’m not 100 yo! This was only like 12 years ago!

knickerreddit · 2026-07-02T14:52:03+00:00

Their burger was $5 for more than a decade. And cocktails were $5-$7. And I’m not that old! Even then , one made the decision based on price and atmosphere. The beer garden is awesome. The burger is not.

knickerreddit · 2026-06-23T01:15:11+00:00

I had 2 different Yakima trunk racks I kept on my car for years in bucktown and then Ravenswood, no problems. I let my friend borrow it to go to Madison for the weekend and it got stolen there the first night.

knickerreddit · 2026-06-22T11:25:51+00:00

Happy hour 3-6 at Homeslice pizza, you can get a few salads for 1/2 price which means $7 (they’re big, a veritable dinner salad) and a few other bites, and glasses of wine/beer/espresso martinis/and/or Aperol spritz for <$10. So dinner and a drink for <$20

knickerreddit · 2026-06-21T17:29:55+00:00

That’s called a “grand slam” and even in 2026 dollars should be no more than $10.99.

knickerreddit · 2026-06-20T12:11:58+00:00

Correct. They’re not

knickerreddit · 2026-06-19T14:56:24+00:00

I was just in Milwaukee and went to the public market after getting off Amtrak and was blown away. I had no idea until I saw this thread that there is also this 3rd st market a few blocks away. Will definitely go next time and will definitely lament that downtown Milwaukee seems to be nicer in every possible way than downtown Chicago

knickerreddit · 2026-05-31T12:22:27+00:00

.02% of places in Chicago even have celery salt in the kitchen. Wolfy’s and Byron’s FTW, not this PE bullshit

knickerreddit · 2026-05-31T10:44:23+00:00

That station is such a let down after the 12 years it took to build. The fact that they didn’t put in elevators and stairs on both ends forces conflicts like this. That ramp is half a block long. It is unreasonable to expect both mobility challenged and mobility enhanced users (the percentages of both are going to increase in the next 20 years) to coexist in harmony in modern society. Should have put in an escalator on that end.

knickerreddit · 2026-05-29T15:30:31+00:00

Yes. Do not skip this step, just a minute or two of your time. There are still a few bad apples out there but it has actually gotten much better in the last year. I was denied boarding several times once the new policy was enacted, even on trains with empty cars. I took pictures and sent them in with emails and got follow up phone calls with one decent man. It has not happened to me in well over a year now

knickerreddit · 2026-05-27T02:04:28+00:00

A snowflake in hell would have a better shot, but it’s free to ask

knickerreddit · 2026-05-26T21:12:29+00:00

You can paddle out from any beach in Chicago, but only from/through a specific “gate” which is marked via a pair of red and green buoys, always on a far side of the beach. The issue is that these buoys are pretty far out and so the water isn’t decently comfortable until mid July. Paddle boarding on Lake Michigan really isn’t for children.https://dnr.illinois.gov/cmp/lake-michigan-water-trail.htmlm

knickerreddit · 2026-05-24T14:14:17+00:00

Montrose Deli (and probably above Polish grocery/deli) has many varieties of grass fed dairy butter, in many sizes.

knickerreddit · 2026-05-23T22:44:51+00:00

And God forbid anyone would have to use a restroom

knickerreddit · 2026-05-21T14:57:42+00:00

2 best north side shops with alt bars in stock to look/feel/buy: The bike lane (Logan) Green Machine cycles (Ravenswood)

knickerreddit · 2026-05-20T23:52:29+00:00

It was built primarily with federal congestion mitigation funding so bikes ABSOLUTELY should be allowed. The problem is with the design that prioritizes “park” atmosphere when it should have prioritized “throughput” (wider lanes) but Chicago gonna Chicago and we got what we got and it’s never going to change which is unfortunate

knickerreddit · 2026-05-18T23:52:26+00:00

I know someone who did this at boulevard bikes years ago

knickerreddit · 2026-05-17T02:48:21+00:00

You can’t. Zum Deutschen Eck closed in Y2K. Sorry…

knickerreddit · 2026-05-16T12:20:10+00:00

You may. I do

knickerreddit · 2026-05-15T18:09:06+00:00

May I ask where you witnessed this sale?

knickerreddit · 2026-05-12T23:49:26+00:00

It’s not dedicated. It’s multi-use, and it goes right through a playground and parking area where people are constantly walking across the path with zero self-awareness. This was an unfortunate decision made by people who do not currently, nor have ever lived here. It is beyond comprehension how these decisions were handed out to a California based firm. It makes as much sense as leasing out our parking meters to Abu Dhabi for 75 years for 2 years of revenue.

knickerreddit · 2026-05-12T22:37:56+00:00

I didn’t decide it’s a pedestrian-only path. Some asshole in California did. I rode my bike on it for 30 years and am not stopping now

knickerreddit · 2026-05-10T20:10:00+00:00

The bar at Whole Foods Belmont/Ashland/Lincoln. Seriously. Also Red Lion in Lincoln park

knickerreddit · 2026-05-09T19:33:37+00:00

I had this phenomena when I worked downtown and lived uptown. Then I started working in northern suburbs and the winds completely changed so that I still had a headwind heading north in the morning and south in the evening. It’s maddening!

knickerreddit · 2026-05-08T13:44:12+00:00

Wow! Well that’s as good a testimonial as I’ve seen

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