Maxwell Street Polish

I always get the polish with everything on it and the double cheese burger its delicious, and you get your order fast no long wait luv it, that is my go to restaurant when am on 116^th the best.

What a polish sausage. Great snack, especially late night. Super easy to just pull of the highway and enjoy. It’s a pretty average fast food experience. But with much more enjoyable food then other options.

Awesome Polish hot dogs! Fries weren’t bad at all. It was cheap too. They have other options, I wanted to try the chicken sandwich but my gf scarf it down it two seconds! Lol When I return to Chicago I will definitely going back!

This is more for the Maxwell’s close to Joliet (not far from Larkin Ave). Had the Gyro with fries and I was in GYRO HEAVEN! Just one of the many things to appreciate about my hometown of Chicago is the food!

Overrated hot dogs! Price is good, original & friendly staff. The hot dog in it self was nothing special

Best Polish in Chicago!
I wish I lived in Chicago still because I’m craving one today with a grape soda:)

This place is such a good drunk spot, haha.
I have gone to Maxwell Street Polish twice and i’m not even a fan of hot dogs, but this isn’t a hot dog (apparently, lol)!
My only complaint is that the french fries are kind of bland and boring.
Otherwise, I’m a fan (or maybe I only love them when i’m drunk?)

Super delish!!! This place has the best Polish I tasted in my life. Just great. The Pork chop sandwich is off the hook. Go here if you want a true taste of Chicago.

First off the immediate area isn’t «ghetto». I’d say about a mile away is ghetto. The problem is, this is where they all come out to eat.
Second, they need to do something about the beggar problem. There is ONE that will be there day in day out asking you for $.75 or $ 1.00. They just sit there and look at him. Plus, he will be ignorant about it too and talk about you as you walk away (even if you do give him money).
Third, if you like old stale «grilled» onions on everything then you’re right at home. I’ve been to a couple Maxwell’s that have better onions but these are pretty bad and the smell kinda gets to you if you live near by.
Lastly, although the onions are bad I do suggest the pizza. For $ 3.00 you get a pretty big slice with a can of pop and it isn’t bad. Plus, they deliver whole pies.
My suggestion, like everybody else, don’t go there when you’re sober and look out for the bum.

This place never fails to deliver when your drunk at 2−3-4am in the morning. ive never eaten at this place sober, but i don’t really think its meant for that. best fucken porkchop sandwhiches everrrrr
you arent a true uic student if you’ve never been to maxwells. has served me well many a time after clubbin or just drinking late by campus

Everything they serve here is amazing. Literally. Everything. And whatever you get, make sure you get those grilled onions.
Also, they’re open on the most ridiculous days: Fourth of July? Yep. New Years Eve? Yep.

Hahah this place is awesomeeeee, its like open til like 4am so everyone goes there after the club. The only bad thing is that its a ghetto area and there are a lot of bums and beggers.

Hi. Welcome to Chicago’s far south side!
I think it is important to clear up some misinformation about the area immediately surrounding this establishment that could either possibly (or probably) be garnered from previous reviews. Of course, it is in no way my intention to attack or «call out» any of my fellow Unilocalers, only to merely make sure that if you are looking for a deliciously cheap and greasy tube meat-​like treat, in the middle of the night perhaps, that you have an accurate idea of what to expect.
1) This place is not across the street from public housing. It is on a busy stretch of Halsted lined with lots of fast food type restaurants, and it’s right across the street from a Wendy’s, a Pizza Hut and a Washington Mutual. Not that I wouldn’t put it past the government to figure out a way to house people inside of a Wendy’s, but I don’t think that has happened here. The area is a mix of working class people and a lot of civil service types and teachers. I live a couple of blocks away and we own our home, just like about 95% of the rest of our block does. I’m just saying — it’s not super fancy, but it’s really not Cabrini-​Green circa 1981 either.
Mainly black people live in this neighborhood. Please don’t let that scare you or fool you — within a pretty short radius of this place you can easily find sorority sisters, drug deals, mansions, blighted shacks, rich people, poor people and a whole bunch of other kinds of stuff and people — just like in most other urban (like when urban=city, not necessarily when urban=black or bad or whatever…) settings. I wouldn’t leave my car running and my purse laying on a bench or run around acting a fool or anything, but I wouldn’t do that in Wicker Park either, so maybe that’s just me. If you are really looking for «the hood», I’m not sure this is really what you are looking for. I mean, I can show you where «the hood» is, because if you really don’t know, then, you know, you really don’t know.
2) This place is located in the parking lot of … this place. That’s pretty much it. There is a large parking lot. A new place has opened up right next door and toward the back that advertises tacos and burritos, but I haven’t tried that place yet. This place is also kind of next door to an Auto Zone, and although the prices might arguably be high to some, I’m not sure you could really consider yourself to have been robbed there. Also, many city police officers appear to live, at least part time, inside and right around the local Walgreens that is about a block away. If you feel you are about to be the victim of a crime, you might want to try and wave them over to you, as it might be faster than going through 911.
3) And most importantly — The Food. The food is really greasy and really, really cheap — cash only. The polishes are average on their own, but the onions that come on top are great. «Grilled onions» doesn’t do enough to describe them, it is almost like a caramelized oniony mush. I wish I could buy it by the jar and put it on everything. It would pretty much be an average place, except for those lovely onions and for the fries. They come free with every sandwich, which usually means those nasty and bland and kind of thick ones that are gross, but here they are kind of thinner and are made out of real potatoes with the skins still on them. They are fricking nice.
I hope this information will be helpful to you. Please feel free to have some of the best donuts in the city
while you’re here.
PS — When you want to order a pork chop sandwich here, be sure to call it a «pork chop sandwich» — that’s how us locals do it.
Enjoy yourself, bitches! (That is a Dave Chappelle show/​Rick James reference and is meant to be welcoming)

this place is located in the parking lot of a stop-​n-​rob. it’s across the street from public housing, and at night, it’s dark. when i go to the windy city, wherever i may roam, this place my 4AM mecca.
pork chop sando and grape nehi. (really mehi).
if it’s your first time having one –enjoy that first bite. and for those of you who have been there before… when that new guy first bites into that pork chop sando … you know what i’m talking about. hehe-​hehe.