Chicago deep-dish pizza, or just "deep dish," as it's commonly known, has befuddled pizza purists for decades. Is it a pizza? Is it, as comedian Jon Stewart once quipped, "an [expletive] casserole?" ...

Deep dish pizza started as a snack for customers drinking alcohol inside a bar owned by Chicago businessman Ike Sewell.

Though deep dish lovers may be guilty of what the Chicago food reporter Steve Dolinsky called Pizza I Grew Up Eating Syndrome — the bias toward the pie of one’s childhood — there does seem ...

Chicago is famous for its deep dish pizza, and there’s no better day to grab a slice than Saturday. That’s because Saturday, April 5, is National Deep Dish Pizza Day. The invention of deep ...