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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark CMG" data-source="post: 2796450" data-attributes="member: 10479">Much like hotdog stands and pizza joints, Chicago has a lot of non-franchised, small, independently owned "fish huts" though many have closed over the last few decades.  One of the ones I am most familiar with is The Fish Keg -<a href="http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/dining/29001,0,7639169.venue" target="_blank">http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/dining/29001,0,7639169.venue</a>As you can see, no seating.  Of course, they sell all sorts of seafood wrapped to take home and cook, but they also have a bank of deep fryers for fast food style fish and chips and other things of that type.  They do a particularly brisk lunch business.Also, here's a list of other Illinois Fish Retailers.  Many have the same style of "counter service" for cooked/take out meals -<a href="http://www.siu.edu/~readi/aqua/fishretailers.htm" target="_blank">http://www.siu.edu/~readi/aqua/fishretailers.htm</a>Of course, with that type of cooking, even the fries (and the chicken, and everything) have a fishy taste, so if you don't like fish it's best to get your deep-fried chicken from another source.Incidently, I used to bartend at a place that had been around since the mid-thirties and thus had (been "grandfathered to have" because now you either have a full restaurant or not) a license to cook meals only on Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday evenings.  A real Mom and Pop operation.  On Wednesday and Saturday they had fried chicken with sides of fries and coleslaw and on Friday (Catholic owners and neighborhood), in addition to the chicken dinners, was their all-you-can-eat fish fry (same sides) or (baked) orange roughy.  Small kitchen, no bigger than a walk-in closet, with nothing but a couple of deep fryers,  a small oven with flat grill, a sink, a freezer, and minimal counter/table space for prep.  On the busiest of dinner nights they might churn out fifty to sixty meals, if I am not mistaken.  Often, an evening might wind up with no more than a dozen meals served.  Everything was deep fried in only the best lard. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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