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    Apr 26, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. '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: History (tv network), Foods and Beverages, Trips and Vacations, PBS (tv network), Long Island

    2. Apr 11, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  2. 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: Dale Sveum, Jeff Samardzija, Anthony Rizzo, Rahm Emanuel, Wrigley Field

    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: Salt, Carlos Marmol, Chicago White Sox, Rahm Emanuel, Wrigley Field

    4. Mar 21, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. 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: Restaurants, Alcoholic Beverages, Sweetwater, Michigan Avenue, John Hancock Center

    5. Feb 23, 2013 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  5. 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: Alzheimer's Disease, Emma Thompson, Will Ferrell, Hal Ashby, Lincoln Square (Chicago, Illinois)

    6. Oct 31, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  6. Billy Goat Tavern owner reacts to NHL lockout

    Tags: National Hockey League

    7. Jun 1, 2012 |Story| KIAH-LTV

  7. Cubs fans on cross-country trip with goat to break curse

    CHICAGO, IL - What would you think if you saw five guys walking down the highway with a goat?! That`s exactly what folks in a handful of states saw. The group is made up of PJ Fisher, Blake Ferrell, Philip Aldrich, Kyle Townsend, Matt Gregory and Wrigley...

    Tags: Cancer, Chicago Cubs

    8. Apr 15, 2012 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  8. O, the stories they told

    Through the rain the writers and readers and listeners came, hustling into the Museum of Contemporary Art a few Friday nights ago to be part of an evening billed as "Chicago Classics." It was the final event in the estimable, enlightening and, for its organizers, exhausting six-day long Story Week Writers Festival, produced by Columbia College's Fiction Writing Department.
    Through the rain the writers and readers and listeners came, hustling into the Museum of Contemporary Art a few Friday nights ago to be part of an evening billed as "Chicago Classics." It was the final event in the estimable, enlightening and, for its...

    Tags: Colleges and Universities, Arts, Education, Chicago Tribune, Arts and Culture

    9. Dec 12, 2011 | Chicago Tribune

  9. Woo who?

    Change of Subject
    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......
    10. Jul 6, 2011 |Story| Chicago Tribune

  10. Taste attendance drops to 25-year low

    About 2.35 million people visited Taste of Chicago this year, 300,000 fewer than attended the city’s iconic summer fest in 2010, according to a Chicago Park District estimate released today.
    Tribune reporters
    About 2.35 million people visited Taste of Chicago this year, 300,000 fewer than attended the city’s iconic summer fest in 2010, according to a Chicago Park District estimate released today. The crowd was the smallest for the Taste since 1986, when...

    Tags: Companies and Corporations, Restaurants, Stevie Wonder, Chicago, Chicago Park District

    11. Oct 18, 2011 |Story| WGN-AM

  11. SNERD - October 18, 2011

    "Theo-mania" has engulfed the Chicago area as the Cubs make a bold move to finally end their historic 103-year drought without a championship. While salivating Cubs fans anxiously await "Theo's Reign," naturally, Snerd is busy with the hard-to-find,...

    Tags: Rod Blagojevich, Illinois Governor, Politics, World Series, Tom Cruise

    12. Jun 28, 2011 | Chicago Tribune

  12. 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, …...
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Billy Goat Tavern Photos
"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
Alexi Giannoulias , left, and his former political riva...
(November 4, 2010)
Kirk-Giannoulias Billy Goat beer summit - You write the caption!
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