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Italian Beef Sandwich in Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Italian Beef Sandwich

Roast sirloin sliced paper-thin, soaked in garlic-y beef jus, and piled onto a long French roll with hot giardiniera or sweet peppers — the sandwich of the old Union Stockyards. Order it 'dipped' and eat it standing in the patented Italian Stance.

Try it at: Al's #1 Italian Beef, claiming the invention in Little Italy in 1938