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The Cincinnati Chili Crawl

Drive time: 5 hours Distance: 300 miles

As an Ohio native, I always thought of Cincinnati as an also-ran in the competition of Great Ohio Cities That Start With the Letter C. Cleveland had the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and LeBron. Columbus had dynastic Ohio State football teams and Jack Hanna. And Cincinnati had … Nick Lachey and a giant roadside statue of Jesus that got struck by lightning and caught fire in 2010. Compared with my hometown of Columbus, Cincinnati seemed far more politically conservative, more buttoned up, more boring.

However, even I am willing to

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