Male Speaker: Here in Chicago there are all kinds of things we love, we love our baseball, we love our cars, and we love our calories.

Female Speaker: My favorite foods in Chicago are hotdogs and pizza.

Marc Schulman: Robinson's Ribs.

Female Speaker: Gyros.

Male Speaker: My Chicago favorite food is Al's Beef.

Male Speaker: Hotdogs and Italian beef.

Male Speaker: Deep dish pizza.

Female Speaker: Chicago style hotdog.

Female Speaker: The Eli's Cheesecake.

Male Speaker: Homemade Italian beef.

Male Speaker: We like to pile our ingredients high and we like them big and large.

Male Speaker: There is olive oil, there is garlic.

Female Speaker: The Cheese is really like melty and nice.

Male Speaker: The hot peppers on the Italian beef.

Female Speaker: Because it's covered in chocolate and it comes on a stick.

Female Speaker: The peppers, the relish.

Male Speaker: High calorie count doesn't seem to stopping people from enjoying some of Chicago's favorite eats and treats.

Marc Schulman: Eli's, this is Chicago institution, we have a family business, over 70 years of the restaurant business in Chicago. Well hopefully some days like today over 10,000, so it's busy, set the all time record.

Male Speaker: A low calorie diet can add ten years to your life so we probably should be counting calories.

Male Speaker: Do you want to know how may calories that is?

Female Speaker: No.

Male Speaker: No I don't.

Female Speaker: I mean to say 600 is.

Female Speaker: They are extremely not good, but I don't care.

Male Speaker: Temptation is easy to overcome, but not all Chicago natives are indulging.

Bai Price: A Turkey sandwich is a Chicago favorite food with fewer calories. It has very little fat in it and will not clot your arteries.

Male Speaker: My Chicago favorite food is Salmon.

Male Speaker: Subway Grilled Cheese Sandwich.

Male Speaker: Some vendors are even offering low calorie versions of local favorites.

Marc Schulman: We have cheese cake, you get about a 120 all the way up to about 400, but you know what, those are the best calories you are ever going to have.

Male Speaker: I am talking to your taste buds and this is Warwick Occomy reporting from Chicago.