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Unveiling The Best Pizza Spots In The Midwest According To Yelp!

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Unveiling The Best Pizza Spots In The Midwest According To Yelp!


Yelp just released its list of the Top 100 Pizza Spots in the Midwest. And surprise — Chicago does NOT top the list.

A place in Michigan ranked the best with Yelp. Loui’s Pizza in Hazel Park, Michigan — serves up Detroit-style pizza. You know, square with crispy corners.

Sorry, Chicago — you didn’t take second, either.

That goes to Futuro in Indianapolis with their Detroit-style and Deep Dish pizzas.

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The Windy City DID get representation with number three’s Pequod’s Pizza and their deep dish pies.

The folks at Yelp say their data team “analyzed business rating and review volume” to compile their ultimate guide to the Midwest’s best pizza joins — all based on Yelp user feedback and reviews.

25. Young Joni, Minneapolis

With Korean BBQ, Short Rib and Pork Belly pies, Yelp users appreciated Young Joni’s hipster-casual atmosphere.

Said Yelp user Annie N.:

“The Korean BBQ pizza at Young Joni is truly in a league of its own. The unique fusion of Korean flavors gives it a distinct and unforgettable taste that sets it apart from any other pizza I’ve ever tried. Each bite is bursting with flavor, leaving you craving more.”

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27. Mama’s Pizza, St. Paul

Said Yelp reviewer Divebabydive G.:

“Wood fired. Perfect crust. The sauce is outstanding. Owners are friendly and mentioned people drive from as far away as St. Cloud.”

 

39. Boludo, Minneapolis

Said Yelper Nicole N.:

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“The pepperoni pizza was definitely something I would come back for! It is thin and greasy, which sounds bad but the cheeses were rich and sooooo tasty! This is not a pizza you eat when you are counting calories/ dieting haha.”

 

80. Pizzeria Lola, Minneapolis

Featuring Korean BBQ, Lady Zaza, Roasted Cauliflower and Short Ribs pizza.

Said Robert W.:

“Everyone’s favorite was the Lady Zaza – it was so incredible and featured a nice combination of Korean and Italian flavors. The spicy sauce works really well and I loved the kimchi and sausage on it.”

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82. Brianno’s Deli-Italia, Eagan

Said Yelper Josh D.:

“Looking to get away from chain pizza/pasta -try this place and you’ll never go back…”

 

84. Blackbird Woodfire, Fargo

Said Yelp reviewer Michelle A.:

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“Our family of 6 ordered a variety of Woodfire pizzas ranging from lumberjack with fried eggs, Canadian bacon, wild mushroom, and what I ordered a cheeky pepperoni. My pizza had pepperoni, basil, cheese, tomatoes and spicy honey. It was good.” 

 

85. Fireflour Pizza + Coffee Bar, Bismarck

Yelper Shinryu A. said:

“The pizza was delicious, you can tell they’re very passionate about their ingredients and process.” 

 

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87. Element Wood Fire Pizza

Featuring Old World, wood fired pizza.

According to Yelp reviewer Kyle T.:

“My daughter got the Northeast special with extra olives…I got the Mediterranean which was meatless. Both were wonderful! The crust is that perfect crisp edge, very little flop and a nice char..but a soft chewy center while still being very thin and strong! Now a crust like this is not easy to do, and they do it very well!

“Flavors where great, not to many ingredients to weigh it down and sog it up while not being short on them at all! Just the right amount of cheese, just the right amount of everything!”

 

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89. Tono Pizzeria + Cheesesteaks, Maplewood

From Yelp reviewer Steve C.:

“I’ve now tried more Twin Cities pizza places. To me, Tono’s still the runaway winner. Compares with the best of NY and Philly: tasty sauce and (a rarity) great crust. Still having an aesthetic problem with places that cut the pizza into tiny squares. Where did that practice come from? Lemon bars?”

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Illinois State Gets 1st Win Over North Dakota, 35-13

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Illinois State Gets 1st Win Over North Dakota, 35-13


 

(AP) — Wenkers Wright ran for 118 yards and two touchdowns and No. 13 Illinois State knocked off North Dakota for the first time, 35-13 in the regular season finale for both teams Saturday.

The Redbirds are 9-2 (6-2 Missouri Valley Conference) and are looking to reach the FCS playoffs for the first time since 2019 and sixth time in Brock Spack’s 16 seasons as head coach.

Illinois State opened the game with some trickery. Eddie Kasper pulled up on a fleaflicker and launched a 30-yard touchdown pass to Xavier Loyd to cap a seven-play, 70-yard opening drive.

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Simon Romfo tied it on North Dakota’s only touchdown of the day, throwing 20 yards to Nate DeMontagnac.

Wright scored from the 10 to make it 14-7 after a quarter, and after C.J. Elrichs kicked a 20-yard field goal midway through the second to make it 14-10 at intermission, Wright powered in from the 18 and Mitch Bartol caught a five-yard touchdown pass from Tommy Rittenhouse to make it 28-10 after three.

Seth Glatz added a 13-yard touchdown run to make it 35-10 before Elrichs added a 37-yard field goal to get the Fighting Hawks on the board to set the final margin.

Rittenhouse finished 21 of 33 passing for 187 yards for Illinois State. Loyd caught eight passes for 121 yards.

Romfo completed 11 of 26 passes for 135 yards and a touchdown with an interception for North Dakota (5-7, 2-6).

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Illinois State faced North Dakota for just the fourth time and third time as Missouri Valley Conference opponents. The Redbirds lost the previous three meetings.



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Photos: Championship scenes from North Dakota Class A, Class B state volleyball

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FARGO — Top-seeded Langdon Area-Munich lived up to its billing Saturday night at the Fargodome.

The

Cardinals earned a 15-25, 25-16, 25-15, 25-16 victory

against No. 2-seeded South Prairie-Max to earn the North Dakota Class B volleyball state championship.

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Bismarck Century spoiled West Fargo Sheyenne’s bid for a three-peat. The

Patriots scored a 25-21, 18-25, 25-15, 25-22 victory

for the Class A state championship.

Century won its 10th state title in program history.

Below are championship scenes from Saturday night at the Fargodome:

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Bismarck Century player Addison Klemin spikes the ball against Sheyenne in the North Dakota Class A championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

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Bismarck Century celebrates winning the North Dakota class A championship game against Sheyenne on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

Bismarck Century celebrates winning the North Dakota Class A championship game against Sheyenne on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

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Langdon Area/Munich player Kemi Morstad bumps the ball against South Prairie-Max at the North Dakota Class B state volleyball championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

Langdon Area/Munich player Kemi Morstad bumps the ball against South Prairie-Max at the North Dakota Class B state volleyball championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

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Bismarck Century player Alexis Heinle spikes the ball against Sheyenne in the North Dakota class A championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

Bismarck Century player Alexis Heinle spikes the ball against Sheyenne in the North Dakota Class A championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

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Langdon Area/Munich player Hilary Haaven spikes the ball in the North Dakota Class B state volleyball tournament on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

Langdon Area/Munich player Hilary Haaven spikes the ball in the North Dakota Class B state volleyball tournament on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

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Bismarck Century versus Sheyenne in the North Dakota class A championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

Bismarck Century battles West Fargo Sheyenne in the North Dakota Class A championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

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Bismarck Century player Alexis Heinle spikes the ball against Sheyenne in the North Dakota class A championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

Bismarck Century player Alexis Heinle spikes the ball against Sheyenne in the North Dakota Class A championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

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South Prairie-Max player Azjiah Trader spikes the ball as Langdon Area/Munich players Hilary Haaven and Aubrey Bedding attempt to block it at the North Dakota Class B state volleyball championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

South Prairie-Max player Azjiah Trader spikes the ball as Langdon Area/Munich players Hilary Haaven and Aubrey Bedding attempt to block it at the North Dakota Class B state volleyball championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

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Sheyenne player Cora Metcalf spikes the ball as Bismarck Century's Cadynce Dewitz rises up for a block attempts in the North Dakota class A championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

Sheyenne hitter Cora Metcalf spikes the ball against Bismarck Century in the North Dakota Class A championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

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Langdon Area/Munich player Payton Hall sets up a teammate against South Prairie-Max at the North Dakota Class B state volleyball championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

Langdon Area/Munich player Payton Hall sets up a teammate against South Prairie-Max at the North Dakota Class B state volleyball championship game on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

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South Praire-Max player Reagan Trudell sets a up teammate in the North Dakota Class B state volleyball tournarment on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

South Praire-Max player Reagan Trudell sets a up teammate in the North Dakota Class B state volleyball tournarment on Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, at the Fargodome.

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Eric Peterson

Peterson covers college athletics for The Forum, including Concordia College and Minnesota State Moorhead. He also covers the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks independent baseball team and helps out with North Dakota State football coverage. Peterson has been working at the newspaper since 1996.

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North Dakota Badlands national monument proposed with tribes’ support

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A coalition of conservation groups and Native American tribal citizens on Friday called on President Joe Biden to designate nearly 140,000 acres of rugged, scenic Badlands as North Dakota’s first national monument, a proposal several tribal nations say would preserve the area’s indigenous and cultural heritage.

The proposed Maah Daah Hey National Monument would encompass 11 noncontiguous, newly designated units totaling 139,729 acres in the Little Missouri National Grassland. The proposed units would hug the popular recreation trail of the same name and neighbor Theodore Roosevelt National Park, named for the 26th president who ranched and roamed in the Badlands as a young man in the 1880s.

“When you tell the story of landscape, you have to tell the story of people,” said Michael Barthelemy, an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation and director of Native American studies at Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College. “You have to tell the story of the people that first inhabited those places and the symbiotic relationship between the people and the landscape, how the people worked to shape the land and how the land worked to shape the people.”

The U.S. Forest Service would manage the proposed monument. The National Park Service oversees many national monuments, which are similar to national parks and usually designated by the president to protect the landscape’s features.

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Supporters have traveled twice to Washington to meet with White House, Interior Department, Forest Service and Department of Agriculture officials. But the effort faces an uphill battle with less than two months remaining in Biden’s term and potential headwinds in President-elect Trump’s incoming administration.

If unsuccessful, the group would turn to the Trump administration “because we believe this is a good idea regardless of who’s president,” Dakota Resource Council Executive Director Scott Skokos said.

Dozens if not hundreds of oil and natural gas wells dot the landscape where the proposed monument would span, according to the supporters’ map. But the proposed units have no oil and gas leases, private inholdings or surface occupancy, and no grazing leases would be removed, said North Dakota Wildlife Federation Executive Director John Bradley.

The proposal is supported by the MHA Nation, the Spirit Lake Tribe and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe through council resolutions.

If created, the monument would help tribal citizens stay connected to their identity, said Democratic state Rep. Lisa Finley-DeVille, an MHA Nation enrolled member.

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North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department, which oversees the National Park Service. In a written statement, Burgum said: “North Dakota is proof that we can protect our precious parks, cultural heritage and natural resources AND responsibly develop our vast energy resources.”

North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven’s office said Friday was the first they had heard of the proposal, “but any effort that would make it harder for ranchers to operate and that could restrict multiple use, including energy development, is going to raise concerns with Senator Hoeven.”



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