The Chicago Pizza Madness Tournament is back and it’s sponsored by our friends at Career Vision!

In 2023, we had 64 Chicagoland area pizza places face off alongside College Basketball’s NCAA Tournament. After 4 weeks and 330,000 votes, Georgio’s of Crystal Lake was crowned the 2023 champion. This year, we asked the WGN Radio audience on Facebook who we should include in this year’s tournament. Over 1,000 responses later by Chicago area pizza lovers, Chicago’s Very Own Eats hosts Kevin Powell and Michael Piff were able to put together the 2024 edition of the bracket.

[UPDATE] The field has been expanded to 68 competitors with the “First Four” play-in round having already officially begun.

And just like last year, the bracket is broken out into four regions: City, North Suburbs, Local Chain and South/West Suburbs.

Listen below as Kevin and Michael share more details and discuss the matchups on the latest episode of the Chicago’s Very Own Eats podcast!

We know that there are so many more Chicago area pizza places that could have been included, and it was very difficult to keep it to just 68. Interested in trying some for the first time? We encourage you do and find them here.

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