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Chicago Restaurant Week, is an event held once a year for seventeen days in which participating restaurants in Chicago offer prix fixe lunches and dinners. A celebration of Chicago's culinary scene featuring some of the finest restaurants, this can be a fraction of the usual prices.
To ensure that in the case of rain the event could be moved to the Chicago Stadium, only 21,000 tickets were sold in advance, but on the day of the fights 40,000 showed up at Soldier Field. The ring was placed in the center of Soldier Field's arena, and was surrounded by 22,000 'ringside seats' placed on a giant, slightly sloped, floor.
The National Restaurant Association is a restaurant industry business association in the United States, representing more than 380,000 restaurant locations. [4] It also operates the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation. [4] The association was founded in 1919 and is headquartered in Washington, D.C. [4]
The United Center's acoustics were designed to amplify noise to replicate "The Roar" – the din that made Chicago Stadium famous, especially during hockey games. [18] The designers originally estimated that the United Center would be 80% as loud as the Chicago Stadium had been.
The Great Gritzbe's Flying Food Show was the name of a popular Chicago restaurant during the 1970s. It opened in 1974, under owner Richard Melman. The style was designed by Lettuce Entertain You. Institution magazine selected it as one of the top ten in design for 1975. [1] The restaurant featured a cheese bar and a dessert bar.
Owner George Lemperis said his restaurant, located blocks from Chicago’s United Center, was closed at the time and his employees had left about 3 p.m. nearly seven hours before the fire began.
Large crowds at the Taste of Chicago in 2011. Arnie Morton, creator of the Taste, decided to line up Chicago restaurants to participate and persuaded then-Chicago mayor Jane Byrne and Commissioner of Cultural Affairs Lois Weisberg to block off Michigan Avenue for the first Taste of Chicago on July 4, 1980. Although organizers expected 100,000 ...
A spectacular new restaurant and bar is open in Arlington, and a smaller sidekick is coming soon. The new restaurant above Choctaw Stadium, Hearsay, opened last weekend to sold-out reservations ...