The Yelpers got it right.

The social media site for business reviews compiled a list of the “top 100 pizza spots in the Midwest.” Of those 100 places, Michigan and Illinois had the best representation with 16 entries each on the list. It was a historic Hazel Park restaurant, however, that took the No. 1 spot.

Yelp’s data team analyzed user ratings and review volume to determine the rankings, which put Loui’s Pizza at the top. The mom-and-pop pizzeria has been on Dequindre just north of E. Nine Mile since 1977, but the story doesn’t start there.

Founder and chef Louis Tourtois — who was once called “the king of pizzas” by The Detroit News in the 1970s — was the pizza maker at the original Buddy’s Pizza before branching out to his own restaurant, Loui’s, which is still run by his descendants today. Tourtois was in the kitchen at Buddy’s when the pizzeria won its first contest, a taste-test of Detroit pizza conducted by The Detroit News in 1970.

The pizza at Loui’s has been made the same way for decades, with a crispy crust, a perfect amount of red sauce on top and pepperoni tucked underneath a boatload of cheese all cooked at a high temperature. Besides Detroit-style pizza, Loui’s serves burgers, pasta dishes and antipasto salads packed with Italian meats and cheese in a dining room that still looks like it’s from the ’70s.

The other Detroit-area pizzerias that made the top 50 of Yelp’s list are Pie Sci in Woodbridge and Oak Park at No. 14 and Fredi the PizzaMan in Melvindale at No. 23. The back half of the list includes Major Tomato in Allen Park at No. 55, Buddy’s Pizza in Detroit at No. 69, Corktown’s Grandma Bob’s at No. 74, Foggia’s Pizzeria in Southfield at No. 75 and Pizzeria Bistro and Antoniou’s Towne Square Pizza, both in Rochester Hills, at No. 78 and 79, respectively.

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While delegates and party leaders gathered in Chicago for the second night of the Democratic National Convention, Vice President Kamala Harris rallied supporters over 80 miles away, in the same city that Republicans nominated her rival just a few weeks prior.

Harris’ campaign said that over 15,000 supporters gathered at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee Tuesday night, where the Democratic nominee spoke alongside her running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. The vice president took the stage in Wisconsin immediately after the DNC finished a ceremonial roll-call, where delegates confirmed Harris and Walz as their choice for the 2024 presidential ticket.

“We are so honored to be your nominees,” Harris said from Milwaukee while addressing the DNC via a live stream. “Together we will chart a new way forward.”

Harris’ rally was held at the same event center where former President Donald Trump accepted the Republican National Convention’s presidential nomination last month, invoking comparisons online of the two event’s crowd size. Photos and videos appear to show that Harris’ rally garnered a similar crowd to the first day of the RNC on July 15, where Trump made his first public appearance after surviving an assassination attempt two days prior.

NBC News correspondent Yamiche Alcindor shared a “360 view” of the crowd in Milwaukee Tuesday night to X, formerly Twitter, writing that rally-goers for Harris and Walz were “cheering” and “enthusiastic.”

In a separate video posted to X by Turning Point USA reporter Savannah Hernandez Tuesday night, the Fiserv Forum appeared filled with energized supporters before the vice president took the stage. Hernandez said her video was taken after the doors to the rally officially closed. The Fiserv Forum has a seating capacity of 18,000.

“This is not a concert,” Victor Shi, a member of Harris’ youth engagement team, wrote in a post X along with a video of Tuesday’s rally. “This is the political rally for Kamala Harris & Tim Walz in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Totally full arena. This will make Trump go crazy.”

Trump, who has been accused of inflating the size of his rally crowds, has recently raised complaints against news outlets for reporting on the size of Harris’ rallies while not focusing on his crowd size. Walz poked fun at the former president while addressing supporters Tuesday, saying from the stage, “Not only do we have massive energy in our convention, we have a hell of a lot more energy where they had their convention…That other guy is going to be so sad tonight, so sad.”

It’s unclear how many people were in attendance each night of the RNC, although a party official reportedly predicted before the convention that peak daily attendance was expected to reach 20,000. The DNC is being hosted in the United Center in Chicago, which has a seating capacity of 23,500. Organizers estimate that over 20,000 people attended the first night of the DNC on Monday, according to the Associated Press.

Newsweek reached out to Harris and Trump’s campaigns via email Tuesday night for comment.