Harolds Chicken Shack
Address:
100 W 87th St, Chicago, IL 60620
Phone:
(773) 224-3314
Hours:
- Mon: 10am-2am
- Tue: 10am-2am
- Wed: 10am-2am
- Thu: 10am-2am
- Fri: 10am-3am
- Sat: 10am-3am
- Sun: 10am-2am
Nice to Know:
- Good For Kids Yes
- Noise Level Very Loud
- Parking Lot
- Wifi No
- Accepts Credit Cards Yes
- Recommended Meal Lunch
- Wheelchair Accessible Yes
Other Details:
Harold's /hair ulds/ n. Short for Harold's Chicken Shack, the fried chicken king of the south surburbs. There are now 65 individually numbered shacks here and in far-flung places including Champaign, Bloomingdale and Wicker Park. Founded at 47th and Greenwood in 1950 by the late Harolds Pierce, who explained:" When I was a child, a preacher came to our house and ate all our chicken. I told my mother then that when I got to be a big boy i was going to open a chicken restaurant." Percy and Carolyn Billings opened their first Harold's Chicken Shack in 1984 at 7310 S Halsted opened the second location 100 West 87th Street in 1992 The Billings opened their third location in down town Chicago at 2109 S. Wabash a few years later.
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