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Only place I've been to where the food is consistently shitty regionally is CA. Probably has to do with the soy boys and trying to make every fucking item on the menu "healthy" and with tasteless avocado. Deep dish will at least give you diabetes and you'll enjoy the fat and flavor.
If you go to Chicago for deep dish pizza, you're likely to leave disappointed as well, so I get it. The hyped food is generally overhyped and most likely just good marketing and not good food making. Restaurants that make great food have a marketing budget of $0. They don't need it.
Deep dish is the inverse Sicilian where instead of having light topping on top of a pan style pizza, it's a casserole full of sausage, kinda like a lasagna.
What I got in Chicago was a 6" thick dense dry cake with tomato and half melted cheese on top.
I've contacted an Italian bakery in eastern MA and they will make us a custom deep dish pizza, Chicago style.
They do a great Sicilian anyways and have simply reversed the conditions but in a cake baking pan instead, so that the dough goes in first, then the slices of mozzarella, the toppings, and finally, the sauce, with grated cheese on top.
My friends and I will do this once a month, because this place does everything well.