Just how much food was gobbled up at the Taste of Chicago during the five-day fest? The estimated 1.2 million attendees ate about 17,600 slices of Lou Malnati's pizza, 30,000 ice cream cones from Original Rainbow, 18,000 slices of Eli's Cheesecake and 4,000 pounds of jerk chicken from Vee Vee's. [Sun-Times]
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