Hey Chicago!

I hate doing this here but I thought you would help me save some time. We are going to the Breeders Cup next year in Arlington Heights. Where would you stay? How would you plan out a get there Friday night,leave sunday afternoon with eight hours left to drive kinda trip.We are coming in from the west. Is there a casino with a hotel nearby the track.?

Thank You!

our spm and a few others can help you as they are from that god awful part of the country. why even spm will let you stay in his house in the guest rooms. his wife will cook dinner for your group. and then he will take you to the poker game and let you beat his big pairs for all his money.

you are pushing the envelope here z, justifiable homicide is a concept you may want to become aware of...gl

hey you are writing like me, no caps and ending sentences with prepositions.

how do you know i am not you...i am even taking up 7cshilo..gonna play in tunica shoe tourney this fri...have the tan book under my pillow...lol..gl

Ray,


Unlike Montana, they have real food in Chicago. I think eating all those wild mushrooms and fake hot dogs is doing something to your brain. You should come to Chicago and have a real Pizza, or my favorite Italian Beef.

We've discussed pizza and hot dogs on the forum recently, but Italian beefs escaped scrutiny. Mason better not delete posts about asking for it sweet, hot, and wet.

chicago--real pizza hahahaha i grew up in new jersey where real pizza was.

i live in a tourist ski area and we really do have outstanding food choices. why yesterday we had fresh raccoon ribs and pig hooves with a cattail soup. and dandelion wine

Ray,


The East Coast is OK for thin crust Pizza, but it's not even close to the quality of a Chicago deep dish. I lived in Philadelphia for three years back in the late 80's and I never found a place that had, on a scale of 1 to 10, a 10 on the east coast (New York or New Jersey included).


By the way, I'm not talking about the chains like Uno's which I think is just average. It's the privately owned establishments that are the best and there are lots of choices.


The foods you talk about are all the wierd stuff that Californians like. They only like that junk because they either suffering from heat stoke or frostbite.


Have you ever had a real Italian Beef with Hot or Sweet peppers. Or how about a Polish Sausage.


You have probably not tasted good food in your life. Considering that you hang out in California, Nevada, or New Jersey (the garden state). Those places don't have any good food.


If you ever come to Chicago, I'll take you to a real Pizza joint.


Good Luck tring to find some real food.


Mark

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hope you don't mind ray.. imitation a form of flattery and all...it saves time and bums out spm...even though i like him fine anyways...heh

Mark,


you are a nice guy and know alot, but nothing about pizza. deep dish pizza is not pizza. its just a pile of dough with some sauce and cheeze on top of it. more like a calzone with the middle put on top.

and sweet peppers-- oh please.

and as for philly. they went from having great cheese steaks to using that cheese whiz crap on them. whats that all about.


try gargoling with some salt and vinegar and maybe your taste buds can return to normal. then get back to me.


and you are right about californians, they dont know jack crap about good food. except mexican and asian.

On our way to Syracuse NY one year we took the train into Chitown. RIght at the train station there was this Italian Deli. I KInda like what Ray likes to eat, But>>Real Italian Beef IN Chicago...You can never pass up the opportunity. Ya just don't know if it's ever gonna come again.

Ya Food. What subject should we take up next. How about the women of Chicago? Hardy. That's why they never let the proffessional athlethes stay home the night before a game.

Now could someone please try and shed some light on a good nights sleep in Chicago. A Casino or Cardroom.

Ray,


You know alot about poker, and a few other things but you do not know Pizza. I grew up on the south side and there are two great places for Pizza. For deep dish try Sanfrantillos in Glenwood, and for thin crust go to Aurilios in Homewood. Don't let that frozen crap that says it's from Chicago fool you. That stuffs junk. Oh yeah, if you don't see Italians making it, it usually sucks.


When I lived in Philly, everyone told me that I had to go to the Italian market in South Philly and have a Cheese Steak. Well I had one and I thought it was spam with cheeze whiz.


The only decent Pizza I had in Philly was on Arch and 3rd, Old City Pizza, right by the Betsy Ross House. It was run by a Greek family and I became good friends with them. They made their own sausage and ground there own beef for burgers. Resonable prices and good food.


Ray, I'm feeling lucky. I just finished packing my bags and am heading south to Missisippi in the morning.


Good Luck


Mark

southsider huh? my parents live there and i have lived there off and on for the last 5 of my 10 years in chicago. definitely the best pizza is here. i don't really know too many places on the southside though, because i am a northsider at heart and don't really get much pizza on the southern tip. some great stuff up north.


as to ace2ten: i don't really know much about hotels up that way. but the poker in the chicagoland area is either in the SW-burbs (what some call the city of Aurora) or in east chicago, IN, just over the skyway. you can check out the rockford charitable games association, they run games pretty regularly, but other than that, its private games that i don't know of. there is a website for the RCGA, but i dont know what it is. im sure you could find it if you tried.