{"id":418779,"date":"2025-12-02T05:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/418779\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T05:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T05:13:11","slug":"hot-chi-chicken-is-giving-away-free-sandwiches-in-chicago-how-to-get-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/418779\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Chi Chicken Is Giving Away Free Sandwiches in Chicago: How to Get One"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago has many opinions\u2014deep dish or tavern style, mustard or \u201cabsolutely not\u201d on a hot dog\u2014but one thing unites almost everyone: a free chicken sandwich. And Lakeview is about to get thousands of them.<\/p>\n

Hot Chi Chicken<\/a>, the South Side-born hot chicken shop, is marking the opening of its newest location with an all-day giveaway on December 6. From 11am to 8pm, anyone who shows up at 953 West Belmont Avenue can snag a free sandwich. No fine print, no hoops\u2014just crispy chicken.<\/p>\n

The brand built its following in Chatham before expanding to the Old Post Office and Sterling Food Hall. Founders Amer and Mutaz Abdullah, along with partner Kinan Moufti, carved out a cult audience with their unapologetically bold sandwiches, including the harissa-glazed Popeye\u2019s Ain\u2019t Sh!t, hot honey butter variations and spicy tenders. (Middle Eastern influences give the Nashville-style lineup a unique twist.)<\/p>\n

Lakeview is set to be the team\u2019s most visible launch yet, with months of social media buildup. Moufti has turned the Belmont station into a studio, filming man-on-the-street videos and handing out hundreds of free sandwich vouchers to commuters. His clever countdown clips have racked up millions of views.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn some ways, this is all brand new because we haven’t opened yet, and we’re already full swing into talking to our future community,\u201d Amer told Time Out in November<\/a>. \u201cIn other ways, this is exactly what we’ve been doing for the past five years since we started documenting all of our experiences on social media from our early days with Cedars.\u201d<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the team\u2019s first massive giveaway, though. When the Sterling Food Hall outpost opened, Hot Chi handed out thousands of sandwiches and drew an estimated 5,000 people on day one. By their own telling, it was\u00a0\u201cpure mayhem in the best way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Lakeview shop will\u00a0offer\u00a0all of the brand’s signatures, along with a few exclusives, including the Dirty Mac: a scoop of mac and cheese topped with hot chicken, Alabama white sauce and their signature seasoning. The space will also host comedy nights, live music and even chicken-eating competitions.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve been watching Hot Chi\u2019s socials and waiting for your moment, this week is it. One day. One location. Thousands of free sandwiches. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago has many opinions\u2014deep dish or tavern style, mustard or \u201cabsolutely not\u201d on a hot dog\u2014but one thing…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":418780,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[10633,960,5386,1818,10634,988],"class_list":{"0":"post-418779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-categories-restaurants","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois","12":"tag-news-eating","13":"tag-restaurants"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115648266477531292","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}