PJ: It's really disappointing that that was your experience. I stayed on the north side a few years ago and went to a little hole in the wall called Nancy's. It's up in Lincoln Park. The pizza was INCREDIBLY expensive for it's size but wow was it worth it. tomato puree over fresh sausage and basil with a mozzarella base with aged parmigiana over the lot of it. The pizza took 40 minutes to cook in a commercial oven that appeared to date back to WWII. When it came out it was amazing. The crust was perfection, not gooey at all, a very wonderful bread texture, dense and warm, the cheese was fresh, the sausage fresher and the tomato was quite good though a bit acidic. All in all a really enjoyable pie. Next time you get to Chicago take the red line up to Lincoln Park and try Nancy's. There's a Nancy's location here in Indianapolis... sad to say the oven isn't the same, and the results are as you described above still expensive but in this case very disappointing. One note, the mozzarella is quite well developed at Nancy's so if you don't like a very thick stringy cheese look elsewhere. I'm not against making a mess for a good pizza. Andrew, gooey mozzarella doesn't faze me in the least - thanks for the hint. I'll put Nancy's on my list and see if I can get out there. I don't know Chicago at all, but I'm staying across from Grant Park - is that far away? - PJH

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