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Eleventh Heaven

As I happily Twittered, I had lunch yesterday at Eleven City Diner, the two-year-old nouveau-Jewish deli in he South Loop. This followed an impromptu dinner last week, when I needed a long walk to work off the stress of my blog migration project and unintendedly meandered to 11th and Wabash. No matter how native I may have gone here in Chicago, it’s always gonna be about the NY-style chopped chicken liver for me. And Eleven City Diner has exactly that.

Estimated reading time: 5 minutes

Big Trouble Over Huge Sandwich

Yesterday, the Macy’s on State Street signage troubles that I uncovered weren’t the only public-relations blunder dogging the Cincinnati-based department store giant, Federated. Full-court press also went to the South Loop’s Eleven City Diner for daring to serve a sandwich named after the defunct Marshall Field’s–a sandwich that actually earned a cease-and-desist letter from Federated.

Estimated reading time: 4 minutes