Hey Chicagoans: Favorite BBQ Joint is?

[AngryAmish]

I like Smoke Daddy on Division. Any other places?

[greatauntoftriplets]

1. Hecky's in Evanston.

Great place.

[linazelle]

8. I like Hecky's too-

[HereSince1628]

2. I woulda said Morris' BBQ in Elgin but that was 20 years ago

Anyone know if that is still going?

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. No, been gone for ages!

My father was from Elgin and we used to go there. What a blast from the past.

[HereSince1628]

4. I suppose they paved paradise to put in a parking lot...

Oh well, as they say you can never go home.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Yes, I rarely get out there any more.

Last time I was there (2 years ago in September) I drove down the street where it had been on my way to Mt. Hope Cemetery for a family memorial mass. Could not even figure out exactly where it had been, though I thought of those great sandwiches in that little dive as I drove down the street. Thanks for a great memory.

[Beaker]

13. I grew up around the corner from Morris BBQ in Elgin-

the one on Larkin Ave on the west side(we lived behind Wiese's Boulevard).
My grandmother owned a second-hand store in an old dog-n-suds about a half-block from the Morris BBQ on the east side- on Villa st.(my uncle also had a warehouse/office for his Canfield's distributorship over by there).
My cousins and I used to love to watch through the window at the pig turning on the spit in the smokehouse.

[greatauntoftriplets]

14. I went to the one on the east side.

My great-grandfather was a foreman at the old Elgin Watch Company. I remember the pig turning on the spit, loved to watch that too.

[NNN0LHI]

5. Smokey Joes in Crete, Il.

Little bar and grill with a real charcoal pit and the best damn ribs I ever ate. Need my wife to dab the sweat off my forehead like a nurse while I eat them.

Don

[linazelle]

7. Ribs 'N' Bibs--Hyde Park

Carsons is pretty good too, but it's different--not as smoky.

[LoZoccolo]

9. There was some place on Sheridan just north of Diversey...

...that looked interesting. Forgot the name though. Plus I've never eaten there. Plus it could be closed down; I don't know.

[Ellen Forradalom]

10. Fitzee's on Indiana Ave.

The real article.

[Susang]

11. Twin Anchors

It was good enough for Sinatra, so it's good enough for the rest of us! :-)

[leftofthedial]

12. I still like Carson's

but what do I know?