Daley's Restaurant

CTL-E-0965 · Business · retail · unspecified

Verified evidence grade of this record

'Chicago's oldest restaurant'; family-owned 100+ years

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PLACE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PLACE-001:PLACE-051; source research type(s): Restaurant. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

https://www.poah.org/news/daley%E2%80%99s-chicago%E2%80%99s-oldest-restaurant-moves-21st-century-new-location; https://www.tastingtable.com/1479248/daleys-restaurant-chicago-history/

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