Except for Chicago where we have great Pizza from places like:
Lou Malnati's
Giordano's
Aurilio's
Home Run Inn
Gino's East.
I once had a friend from Iowa who thought Pizza Hut made the worlds best Pizza.:ROFLOL:
I was
waiting for someone from Chicago to speak up! :wave::lol:
I know, I know, people from Chicago are very proud of their style of pizza. And I've had it a few times, although I'm sure that what I had was not the best, at places like Pizzaria Uno. I'm sure the pizza at the places you mention above is really good and much better than the Pizzaria Uno pizza. And I like Chicago-style pizza once in a while for a change.
But it's still Chicago-style pizza (isn't it? - to be honest, I don't know! Is there NY-style pizza available in Chicago?). And it's different from the NY-style pizza. When someone from this part of the country says "pizza", he usually doesn't mean to include Chicago-style pizza. As good as it is, to us it doesn't really "count".
So from my standpoint, a bit south of Ocean City, NJ, a bit west of the Philadelphia area (where ironically it's not called pizza at all, but "tomato pie":lol

, a bit north of Rockland and Westchester counties, and a bit east of the middle of Connecticut (not counting Long Island - pizza there is ok), what they call "pizza" morphs into something entirely different!
It was so funny, a guy I used to work with in NW FL visited NYC a few years back, and saw a sign over a bar he was in that pizza was available to order at the bar from the restaurant next door. So he ordered a pizza and the bartender asked what size he wanted, and he was really hungry, so he ordered a large!

A large pie in NW FL is generally like 12", maybe a bit bigger, depending on where you go exactly, and generally has pretty thin crust. Well, this pie was about 24" across with normal "NY-style" crust, which is enough to feed 3-4 people! He couldn't believe it! You have to picture him telling this story with a NW FL (read south Alabama) accent! :ROFLOL: