Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder Company is a restaurant located in Chicago, Illinois. The restaurant was founded in 1972, and specializes in a signature dish called the "pizza pot pie." It enjoys local popularity and has appeared in many publications and television shows. There is no knowledge of when the building was first built. It has been speculated that the building had some ties to gentility, but those ties were severed in 1929. The parking garage across the street became known as the location of the "St. Valentine's Day Massacre", the infamous murder of
A Meeting in Chicago A Meeting in Chicago A Meeting in Chicago is an album by trumpeter/saxophonist Joe McPhee, reedist Ken Vandermark and bassist Kent Kessler, which was released in 1997 on Eighth Day Music and reissued the following year with new artwork by Okka Disk. The album documents trio, duo and solo improvisations recorded all in a single take with no rehearsal, before playing their first concert later that night at The Empty Bottle. Vandermark cites McPhee’s solo recording "Tenor" as a major influence. In her review for AllMusic, Joslyn Layne states "Ranging from fast and active to mellow and sparse, this recording