Chicago-style pizza is a specific variety of pizza. Pizza is traditionally considered to be a type of hearth cake such as focaccia. True Chicago-style pizza, a unique deep dish variety, features a buttery crust, cheese and chunky tomato sauce.

Today, the Home Run Inn has seven locations in Illinois and is famous for its hand-tossed pizza. Considered among the best in Chicago, the pizza’s recipe has not changed since its inception in the 1940s.

Want to make a piece of pizza healthier? Try using whole-wheat dough. Give it a full 2 days to rise, and then cook the tomato pie a little longer and hotter than usual. That was the recipe shared last week by researchers at the American Chemical Society meeting in Chicago.

Pizza dough is versatile. It can not only be used to make different styles of pizza -- thin crust or Chicago Deep Dish -- but also for calzones. This recipe for pizza dough has evolved over time, as all good recipes do.