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Otis Wilson Will Have Beef With Wicker Park Thursday
Otis Wilson, linebacker from the Chicago Bears 1985 Super Bowl team, will be in Wicker Park today, enjoying beef at the grand opening of Al's Beef. The restaurant marks the franchise's eighth in the city.
Among those celebrating the opening of Wicker Park's Al's Beef is Chicago linebacker legend Otis "Mama's Boy" Wilson.
The 1985 Chicago Bear will be at the new resataurant, 1300 N. Milwaukee Ave., at 5:30 p.m. Thursday to mingle with customers and sign autographs, a spokeswoman said.
The restaurant is hosting "grand opening festivities" through this coming Saturday, March 9. Deals include a $1.99 Vienna Beef hot dog and fries combo; a $2.99 Itlaian beef; and a $2.99 one-third pound Polish hot dog with fries on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, respectively.
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The Al's Beef storefront was previously occupied by vegetarian fast food joint, Veggie Bite.
Al's started as a small family-run Italian beef stand in Little Italy in 1938 and has grown into a Chicago institution since then.
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The first franchise opened in Tinley Park in 2001 after Chicago Franchising Systems, Inc. bought the rights to Al's Beef restaurants in 1999. The chain currently has seven locations within the city, with another five in the surrounding suburbs, one in Arizona, and one on Georgia.
The Milwaukee Avenue location marks the eighth Al's Beef within the city limits.
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