Home Run Inn (HRI), home of Chicago’s very own thin crust pizza, today broke the record for the World’s Largest Pizza Party. More than one thousand hungry participants joined Home Run Inn at Gallagher ...

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CHICAGO, Oct. 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- What started as a Southside Chicago tavern in 1923, grew into the birthplace of tavern-style pizza—Home Run Inn. By the 1940s, the tavern's hand-pinched, crispy ...

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Those who grew up on Chicago's Home Run Inn pizza can thank Mary Grittani. After running a tavern in the city's South Lawndale community, for more than 20 years, she and her son-in-law, Nick Perrino, ...

Being in business for 100 years is somewhat of “a miracle” for Home Run Inn. So when thinking about how to give back to the community that had supported it for a century, the family-owned business ...

Home Run Inn is recalling more than 13,000 pounds of frozen meat pizza after consumer complaints of metal in the Chicago-style pies, federal food safety officials said on Sunday. The recall involves ...

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