For a moment I thought that the signing of Jon Garland would be the biggest news today in the Chicago area. Not so, as a downtown Chicago institution, the Berghoff, has announced it will be closing its doors in Feb, 2006. I have taken many an out of town friend who visits Chicago to the Berghoff. Christmas shoppers flock to this restaurant, a one-time mens' only bar. To show how famous the Berghoff is, I was once in Jonesboro, Arkansas and met a guy who upon learning that we were from Chicago, excitedly began describing a great restaurant that he went to in Chicago. Yes, the Berghoff. At the very least, visit the Berghoff's website, or if at all possible visit the Berghoff and have a Berghoff beer or a Berghoff brew root beer before it closes its doors.
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Best damm hot tuekey sandwich or dinner in the city!!!!
Opps!! That is turkey, not tuekey. Even daddy3dog makes a mistake. I had trouble seeing the correct keys through my tears being shed for yet another Chicago institution--an icon--announcing a closing or sibstantive end of an era. Progress is one thing, but this is getting crazy!!!!
Still another typo. The tears have not stopped, nor will they soon.
As we close out 2005, we must pause and raise our collective glasses to the great, and soon to be late great Bergoff. Barkeep...another rounds of drats for my boys, and the girls in the back room. I am running a tab!!!
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