Posted by:
ChicagoHal
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I think the first post is saying that it was the first pizza place in the Loop, not in that the first pizza place in the United States was opened in the Loop.
My dentist's father was written up in the Parade magazine (or whatever it was called at the time) for opening what was claimed to be the first Chinese restaurant in Chicago that delivered. He said that when he was a small child, he would stand on a couple phone books and work the register.