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Rico’s Pizza celebrates 50 years

Having grown up in Chicago's south suburbs, we were never short on good places to order pizza from. A lot of good ones have disappeared over the years. Still, there are some that have stood the test of time and even some that have grown to multiple locations in the Chicago area and beyond. One place that is still going strong serving up classic Chicago South-Side thin crust pizza is Rico's Pizza in Lansing. Now that I have moved to Northwest Indiana and Rico's is no longer a 5-minute drive, I realize that I under appreciated this gem when it was in my back yard. It was probably the first carry-out pizza I had when I moved to Lansing - my introduction came from noticing it next door the realtor's office when we started looking at houses in 1991 as our wedding was approaching. However, it wasn't my go-to. I don't know that I really had just one go-to pizza since there were so many good ones nearby - and what pizza we ordered often was swayed by whatever coupons ...

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