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Antioch Pizza Shop - Crystal Lake

FoodCrystal Lake (suburb) · Pizza Community-sourced, unverified
📍 1024 McHenry Ave, Crystal Lake, IL 60014

Art and Karen Wicklein — high school sweethearts and Antioch natives — left corporate careers (engineering, education and marketing) to open the original Antioch Pizza Shop, built from the start on being "the crust of the community": sponsoring local schools, churches, and sports teams rather than just selling pizza to them.

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The Cheese Stuffed Pepperoni is the weekly special worth planning your order around.
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The Crystal Lake location carries the same Double Decker Pizza that put the original shop on the map, plus the FREECHEESE coupon — a free 12" thin crust cheese pizza with any 18" pizza purchase — honored at every location, Crystal Lake included, not an Antioch-only promo.

It's grown to six locations across three states since, but it's still run on the same community-first premise two ex-corporate locals started it on, not a franchise rollout that bought the name.

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Mon-Thu10:30AM-9PM
Fri-Sat10:30AM-10PM
Sun10:30AM-9PM
🥡 Takeout unconfirmed 📞 (815) 526-0050

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❔Takeout: unverified
❔Wheelchair access: unverified

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