In the mid-1970s on New York's East Side, restaurant owners would cart their stoves, sausages and cash registers to the streets for one summer day's dose of outdoor gluttony. The people loved the food; the restaurants lapped up the exposure.

One summer, Chicago restaurateur Arnie Morton took in one of those festivals. Chicago could do this, he thought. And it could do it better.

So, mainstays in Chicago's restaurant scene - Morton's own Arnie's, the Pump Room, Lawry's, the Golden Ox, among others - set up tents along Michigan Avenue between Ohio and Wacker on July 4, 1980, and invited the ...

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