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Cinderella's

Iconic/NotableBack of the Yards · American Diner Community-sourced, unverified
📍 1925 W 47th St, Chicago, IL 60609

Cinderella's is a 15-seat Back of the Yards diner that's been run by the same chef — known to regulars simply as Helen, everyone's favorite babcia — for 50 years, which alone makes it one of the more quietly remarkable diners in the city.

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A $2.15 cheeseburger and 50 years of the same chef running the counter — WBEZ's Best Chicago Diners feature (Nov 2024)

It's a genuine 1950s-style lunch counter, old-school in every sense: patty melts and chili on the menu, and a cheeseburger priced low enough ($2.15 per one listing) to feel like a typo until you remember this is exactly the kind of place that time, deliberately, forgot to raise prices on.

WBEZ singled it out in a November 2024 roundup of the city's best diners — a small, half-century-old counter holding its own against spots with a hundred times the seating.

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Cinderella's

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The $2.15 Cheeseburger
Back of the YardsCommunity

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