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  • Restaurants & Bars

    Time Out Chicago / Issue 162 : Apr 3–9, 2008
    2008 Eat Out Awards

    Critics' picks

    YOU’RE GETTING SLEEPY When it comes to late-night food, Izola’s fried chicken beats soggy burritos any day.
    Photo: Brendan Lekan

    Best Substitute for a Glass of Warm Milk
    Izola’s

    Doctors are quick to prescribe pills for those who toss and turn all night, but if those MDs knew about Izola’s, Ambien would go the way of the dodo. Open 24 hours a day, six days a week (owner Izola White takes Wednesdays off), the restaurant practically begs to be patronized by midnight snackers. In fact, we challenge anybody with insomnia to pile a plate with Ms. White’s corn muffins, fried catfish, candied sweet potatoes and fried chicken and not feel so satisfied that they conk out the minute they’re home. Or, for that matter, at the restaurant itself. (The benefit of that last option, of course, is that when they wake up, they can order breakfast.) 522 E 79th St, 773-846-1484.

    —David Tamarkin


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    • 40671 Boo Yakasha Sun, Sep 14, at 01:48am
      Wow, not only is your list bad but you made me waste my time by clciking on each one...nice work.

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    • 31851 sue Fri, Aug 15, at 01:02pm
      I HATEclicking on each restaurant --this is so tedious I won't be back-- I imagine that your advertisers buy space according to how many clicks you can FORCE your readers to go through to get anywhere...and that's why you have made this site impossible for your readers--better to find a less annoying way to increase revenue... This site is RIDICULOUS!

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    • 29631 Bob Sun, Aug 10, at 01:19am
      You want a comment on the article? No can do. When I see I have to wade through at least 20 pages I just stopped at page one. What are folks thinking? Have you no respect for those who visit your site?

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    • 27521 eb Fri, Aug 01, at 12:16pm
      Golly, the set-up of this article is painful and exceedingly user-unfriendly. A one-page list with links to details would be a lot more usable, as others have commented.

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    • 26811 Maguire Thu, Jul 31, at 06:33am
      I'm losing the will to live. Just show the list for crying out loud. If I want to read your critics justification give me a link to go to the article

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    • 15261 me Mon, Jun 30, at 05:34pm
      this is the worst designed web site ever. How are you supposed to read this article?

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    • 12321 ND Tue, Jun 24, at 03:16pm
      Good grief... no simple list of all the winners? I'm supposed to click through one at a time? previous writer nailed it: there isn't enough time in my life.

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    • 5888 Isabella's Cafe in Tinley Park, IL Fri, Apr 25, at 09:28am
      We live in the south suburbs and are looking for somewhere "new" to go to for our anniversary. What do you think of this restaurant, and is it worth the trip? Thank you. We are going tomorrow eve.

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    • 5383 TG Fri, Apr 11, at 02:07pm
      I agree that trying to read this article is the pits on this new site. Very slow to load, and that's especially annoying when there's only one paragraph per page. Big thumbs down.

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    • 5364 Robert Sexton Fri, Apr 11, at 09:27am
      The new beta site.. yuk! There isn't enough time in my life to view your articles one at a time. And I have a fast internet connection. On a smartphone forget about it. The search engine went from terrible to horrendous, and I was just getting started on figure it out.

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