Doug and Wendy Sibery of Sleepy Hollow, Ill., saw on television that Obama liked to take his wife Michelle to the eatery.
"If it's good enough for Michelle Obama, it's good enough for my wife," said Sibery, who naturally asked for -- what else? -- the "Garbage Pizza."
"Pan or thin crust," asked his waitress, wearing, of course, an "Obama Eats Here" t-shirt.
"What does Obama have?" responded Sibery.
"He has the pan," came the server's reply.
"So that's what I had," he said. "It was wonderful. A little pricey, but very good."
And very big, too.
"I had the small and it was huge," Sibery noted. "I don't know how he stays that thin."
"He has good taste in food," quipped one neighborhood customer named Jennifer.
"I hear he works out a lot," observed Pool.
Another regular patron named Stan Zerlin, who comes in about five times a week with his wife Betsy, gave the restaurant a poem about the president-elect that hangs on the wall:
"In the not so distant past / South Chicago was cast / As a place not particularly pleasin' / But from that humble place / Began a great race / That transformed / the political season.
"On the shores of Lake Mich / Loomed large a grand wish / And the cry / Yes we can / Yes we can / That cry grew quite loud / It enraptured the crowd / And elected our first / Black American."
Obama's daughter Malia has also left her mark on the eatery. In green crayon, she followed a restaurant tradition of scrawling her signature onto an upstairs wall.
One server recommended that your reporter head over to another neighborhood attraction: the Nation of Islam's Louis Farrakhan's house.
"It's only two blocks away," suggested the waiter. "You're already there."
Walking down the Hyde Park streets, the city has hung signs on lampposts that read, "Congratulations, Chicago's own Barack Obama: President-elect of the United States of America," with an accompanying artist's rendering of Obama emblazoned with the mantra, "Yes We Can!"
The lamppost signs quickly caught the eye of Patrice Crowley, a tourist from Pennsylvania.
"I was just shocked at how quickly their pride has expressed for monetary reasons and just for civic pride," she said. "I thought that was really wonderful."
Crowley also noticed a drugstore chain selling Obama apparel, too.
"I was just so impressed that even Walgreens would sell things like Obama sweatshirts," she remarked. Crowley and her friends spent the afternoon walking around the leafy University of Chicago neighborhood, where Obama once taught at the law school.
Just blocks away, toward Lake Michigan, is the Obamas' modest old apartment in East View Park, where they lived for 12 years before moving to their present Kenwood residence.
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