Dynamite dogs

The story of how the Chicago hot dog came to host a lucky number of pile-ons is as bewildering as that neon-green relish.

The home of the first Chicago-style dog might have a new name, but it's held on to its tried-and-true taste.

Jim's Original accepts no imitations.

X marks the spot at Gold Coast Dogs.

At Gene & Jude's there's no eye-candy, no seating and no time for chitchat.

At Susie's Drive Thru, you might get more wiener than you bargained for.

One very hungover man puts up with an agonizingly long Saturday wait to get his hands on Hot Doug's duck-fat fries and a frank.

Stripped down to its bare elements, a hot dog's ingredients aren't exactly the stuff of horror flicks.

We put Chicagoans' legendary antipathy toward ketchup to the test.

Two diametrically opposed hot-dog lovers bare their souls on the controversial condiment.