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Eli's Cheesecake Company

CTL-I-0055 · Institution

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Combined Graph record U-00538 · provenance: canonical master store (CSV), record CTL-I-0055. Master record source: CTL seed 2026-10-16 — UNVERIFIED, verify before public citation.

Chicago cheesecake maker

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Chicago cheesecake maker

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Eli's Cheesecake's own PR Newswire release (tier 2 company content) describes a "Third-generation Chicago bakery, Eli's Cheesecake", creator of "Chicago-style Cheesecake" at Eli's The Place For Steak, with its Eli's Cheesecake Cafe at 6701 W. Forest Preserve Drive, Chicago, and calls the product "a Chicago food icon" - establishing the stored "Chicago cheesecake maker" claim. The release marks the company's 44th birthday in 2024 (i.e., founded c. 1980); no founding year is stored for this entity. (fetched in full 2026-10-17)

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