A couple of years ago Chicago Magazine came up with list of Chicagoland's 25 best pizzas.  Not places or styles but the best pies at different restaurants. 

This will be the start of bi-monthly meetups to try those 24 pizzas, Crust just closed.   The plan is to order the specific pizza from the article and another pie depending on the size of the group.  Plan on at least one meat and one vegetarian pizza to make everyone happy. 

First up for Pizza-palooza is Aurelio's for a thin crust pizza with black olives.  South suburbanites love to talk about Aurelio’s old oven, a magical apparatus that supposedly dates back to 1959. People have been asking for their pizzas to be cooked in the old oven for so long that no one knows whether it still exists. (It’s also spawned one of Chicago’s longest-running in-jokes—ordering old-oven-cooked pizzas in every Aurelio’s outpost.) A waitress at the flagship location, a middle-aged lady named Betty, assured customers it does exist, then served a quintessential party-cut pie with sweet plum tomato sauce, a thick cheese blend, and a crunchy yet distinctively filling crust. “Some people like it,” she said, “because it makes the pizzas extra crispy.” You got that right, Betty. The original location in Homewood is a little out of normal area so we'll try the LaGrange location. 

To check out the Chicago Magazine article click http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/July-2010/Photos-Best-Pizzas-in-Chicago/ 

After the pizza let's check out the LaGrange Theater and see if there's any good second run movies playing.