Also a legendary
tavern in
Chicago named for its
Greek founder, Billy Goat Sianis who, "came to
America with $5 in his pocket, and
died with a half-million friends" (to quote one of them). Perhaps due to the original spot's location on Lower
Michigan Avenue (situated directly between the
Chicago Sun-Times and the
Chicago Tribune) it was frequented by
reporters and
columnists (notably
Mike Royko) who, in due time, came to write about it.
The Sianis family still own the place today, only it has become a chain of places in order to capitalize on the status of tourist attraction they gained when John Belushi sent them up on Saturday Night Live back in the 1970s...(Cheezborger! Cheezborger! Cheezborger! No fries, chips!)