They bought a building on East Superior Street "but didn't know what to put in it," Levine told a Tribune reporter in 1983, when the restaurant was sold to new owners.

"[2] Gino's East served deep dish pizza at 162 E. Superior St., a block from the Magnificent Mile, from 1966 until 2000.

Alice Mae Redmond, a Black woman originally working as a cook at Pizzeria Uno, was hired by the friends.

[5] Alice Mae had worked at competing Pizzeria Uno for 17 years, where she developed a special dough recipe.

In an effort to save their dinnerware, employees began to encourage customers to write on the walls and even provided them with pens and markers.

In 2015, 5 Rabbit Brewery announced that it would cease doing business with Donald Trump because of his statements about Mexican immigrants.

[18] The company subsequently opened other locations in the Chicago Metropolitan Area, including Wheaton, Naperville, Rolling Meadows, Lake Zurich, Deerfield, Oak Lawn, and Highland, Indiana.

Another location opened in downtown Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, a popular tourist destination near Illinois.

Additionally, Gino's East operates a mail-order business, where patrons can order frozen pizzas and have them shipped overnight.

The Nashville location boasted a large outdoor patio with jumbo yard games (Jenga, horseshoes and cornhole) a late night pizza window and a dual inside and outside bar.