The sauce lineup runs from Mild to Spicy up through Suicide, for whoever in your group insists on proving something. The wings themselves have shown up on national best-of lists more than once, but the sleeper order is the waffle-cut 'chips' fries with cheese sauce -- ask anyone who grew up ordering from here and they'll bring those up before the wings.
There's a second location on Howard Street in Chicago now, but the original Clark Street storefront, a block off campus, is still the one with the college-town pedigree. Cash only, so plan ahead -- this isn't the place to discover your card doesn't work after you've already ordered a twenty-piece.
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