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Stuffed pizza

Chicago-style stuffed pizza, built with a bottom dough layer, a deep filling, a second thin dough layer sealing the top, and sauce ladled over that top layer after baking — a genuinely distinct construction from Chicago deep-dish, which uses a single dough shell with filling and sauce open-faced on top.

Common misuse

Using 'deep-dish' and 'stuffed' interchangeably — deep-dish is open-faced with a single dough shell, while stuffed pizza has a second dough layer sealing the filling before the top sauce layer.

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Evidence

Generally accepted
  • Chicago Tribune — history of Chicago deep-dish and tavern-style pizzaChicago Tribune