Chicago hot dog eatery reverses course on Manatee County location

Fred Booth remembered eating at the first Portillo’s hot dog stand.

It was a 6-by-12-foot trailer fashioned to look like a dog house.

Booth is from Naperville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. The “Dog House,” as it was called prior to taking on owner Dick Portillo’s name, was opened in 1963 in Villa Park, another Chicago suburb…

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