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    Mar 21, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. Howells & Hood goes upscale on a large scale

    For decades Chicago journalists' post-work watering hole of choice has been the Billy Goat Tavern, with its three beers on tap ($3.50 Schlitz and Billy Goat Dark and Lager) and $3.15 cheeseburgers just a dark stairway's descent from the Magnificent Mile's south end.
    For decades Chicago journalists' post-work watering hole of choice has been the Billy Goat Tavern, with its three beers on tap ($3.50 Schlitz and Billy Goat Dark and Lager) and $3.15 cheeseburgers just a dark stairway's descent from the Magnificent Mile's...

    Tags: Alcoholic Beverages, Hotel and Accommodation Industry, Tribune Company, Millennium Park, Chicago Restaurants

    2. Apr 26, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  2. 'Burger Land' and the Billy Goat

    No one who met George Motz on the afternoon of April 19, 2003, as he bit into his first double cheeseburger in the subterranean Billy Goat Tavern on Hubbard Street — “It is incredible, everything I had heard it was. The taste is distinctive … a great burger,” he said — might have imagined that he would now be considered the nation's leading expert on cheeseburgers and the star/host of a new series on the Travel Channel titled, appropriately enough, “Burger Land.”
    No one who met George Motz on the afternoon of April 19, 2003, as he bit into his first double cheeseburger in the subterranean Billy Goat Tavern on Hubbard Street — “It is incredible, everything I had heard it was. The taste is distinctive...

    Tags: Television, PBS (tv network), Travel, Lifestyle and Leisure, Trips and Vacations

    3. Apr 12, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. Sure, blame the Greek White Sox fan for Wrigley goat head prank

    Whenever ethnic profiling raises its ugly head, you can usually count on a great newspaper to express its outrage.
    Whenever ethnic profiling raises its ugly head, you can usually count on a great newspaper to express its outrage. Unless the head once belonged to a goat, and said head was sent to Wrigley Field in care of Chicago Cubs owner Tom Ricketts. Then the...

    Tags: Carlos Marmol, Salt, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Mayor

    4. Dec 12, 2011 | Chicago Tribune

  4. Woo who?

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    Ronnie "Woo-Woo" Wickers, dressed in his winter-weight Cubs uniform and holding a blue ukulele showed up outisde the WGN-AM 720 showcase studio this morning when I dropped in to visit with Jonathon Brandmeier. I mentioned on the air that Wickers......
    5. Jun 28, 2011 | Chicago Tribune

  5. Famed Billy Goat Tavern coming to Mt. Prospect

    TribLocal - Northbrook » News
    An iconic Chicago restaurant will soon establish an outpost in Mount Prospect’s Randhurst Village, formerly Randhurst Mall. It’s a long way, culturally and in miles, …...
    6. Nov 4, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  6. Quinn, Kirk should raise a glass to good fortune

    Change of Subject
    Sen.-elect Mark Kirk bought a beer Wednesday evening for his vanquished opponent, state Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias. But before Kirk leaves for Washington, he should also be sure to send a case of the finest spirits to the man who gave......
    7. Nov 3, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  7. Alexi and Mark have a beer at the Goat

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    Posted by Bill Ruthhart at 7:30 p.m. Republican Sen.-elect Mark Kirk and defeated Democrat Alexi Giannoulias toasted each other and held a 20-minute, whispered conversation in front of a media horde Wednesday at the Billy Goat Tavern. Kirk had offered.......
    8. Nov 22, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  8. Quinn and Brady to meet at Manny's Tuesday

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    Posted by Monique Garcia at 3:03 p.m. Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn and Republican state Sen. Bill Brady plan to break bread at a popular Chicago deli on Tuesday, a symbolic meeting aimed at showing the men can work together following......
    9. May 14, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  9. Mayor Richard Daley raises steaks in bet with San Jose over Blackhawks-Sharks series

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    Posted by John Byrne at 4:01 p.m. With the stakes rising for Chicago in the Stanley Cup playoffs, Mayor Richard Daley today added steaks to the municipal buffet he’s putting up against his counterpart in San Jose on the outcome......
    10. May 27, 2010 | Chicago Tribune

  10. Daley puts food, books on the line in Blackhawks-Flyers Stanley Cup bet

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    Posted by John Byrne at 5:52 p.m. Mayor Richard Daley is upping the ante as he bets against his Philadelphia counterpart on the outcome of the Stanley Cup finals.Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter, however, is not. Win or lose, Nutter has......
    11. Apr 11, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  11. Mayor: Goat's head at Wrigley 'speaks for itself'

    Mayor Rahm Emanuel said today that a goat's head dropped off at Wrigley Field is no laughing matter, but tell that to Cubs players.
    Chicago Tribune
    Mayor Rahm Emanuel said today that a goat's head dropped off at Wrigley Field is no laughing matter, but tell that to Cubs players. "Come up with something original," scoffed Cubs pitcher Jeff Samardzija, noting that the billy goat curse against the team...

    Tags: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Anthony Rizzo, Rahm Emanuel, Dale Sveum, Chicago Mayor

    12. Feb 23, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  12. A screen's-eye view of Chicago

    Chicago has been involved in filmmaking since the technology's very beginnings in the early 1900s, when some of the world's first movie studios operated here. From those early days, when neighborhood kids would sneak onto the Selig Polyscope Co. lot at...

    Tags: Harvey Keitel, Robert Duvall, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emma Thompson, Edgewater

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Sun-Times photographer Scott Stewart, right, gets a hug...
(May 30, 2013)
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"Burger Land" host George Motz with a triple cheeseburg...
(April 26, 2013)
'Burger Land'
An usher stops William Sianis, owner of the Billy Goat...
(April 14, 2013)
Wrigley in 1945
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