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    THE 10 BEST

    Oct 10, 2020 6 minutes
    Photography by JEFF MARINI
    Illustrations by SARAH BECAN
    By TITUS RUSCITTI

    A highly opinionated ranking from Chicago’s premier street-eats expert

    1 THE COMBO

    Johnnie’s Beef

    Elmwood Park

    WHAT IT’S MADE OF Italian beef, grilled Italian sausage, sweet and hot peppers, and giardiniera piled on a French roll and dunked in gravy

    All due respect to Scottie and Mike, but this sandwich is Chicago’s greatest one-two punch. First, take the beef: You can count on one hand the number of spots that still roast their own in-house, and Johnnie’s is one. That supremely tender beef is paired with a sausage that’s been grilled over live charcoal, so it adds some bite. It’s all loaded into a roll and topped with roasted peppers (get both sweet and hot) and giardiniera, which give it some zip. The finishing touch is a quick dip in gravy for a beefy slam dunk. The result is unbeatable: juicy, smoky, sweet, piquant, and unbelievably messy. It’s

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