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Originally Posted by left of center
Other food network shows have also mentioned the "Elmwood Park neighborhood of Chicago" when visiting Johnnies (actually, it might have been Bourdain again, on The Layover). Its funny, because they know that 95% of the country won't know that what they said is wrong, and that only Chicagoans would and maybe a few west suburbanites would notice. I guess that's a margin of error that's good enough for them.
That being said, I would be entirely fine with Chicago annexing Elmwood Park to bring Johnnie's into the city proper. Ditto on Burt's Place, although I haven't visited them since they closed (and now re-opened) after Burt died, so can't speak to the pizza quality nowadays.
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It's an easy mistake to make. Johnnie's is less than 1/2 mile from the city limits, in a suburb that looks identical to a city neighborhood. It probably would be part of the city if the Great Depression hadn't happened.
If they called it a suburb, it would seem far more remote than it actually is. That's not to say it's close to downtown, Chicago is vast... but it's not Plainfield or Mundelein either. It's closer to the Loop than O'Hare.