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I should add, there’s a somewhat new place here in Chicago called Great Lake pizza that’s been mentioned in the same breath as Pizzeria Bianco (and also proclaimed as the nation’s best pizza or some superlative like that), and has the 2 1/2 hour waits to match, but I haven’t had a chance to try it yet.
Edit: Here’s kind of a fun March-madness style bracket for best pizzerias in the US. Pizzeria Bianco won, Great Lake pizza was in the final four. Burt’s made it to the Elite 8, defeating Stop 50 Pizzeria in the Sweet 16.
It’s funny that the OP is in the same area I am but didn’t mention the local chain I prefer. As a former New Yorker, I am very partial to real NY pizza, and Flying Pizza can hang with any of the Bronx pizza parlors which I grew up eating.
In fact, I’ll be in Kettering on business tomorrow, and plan to stop at the Centerville Flying Pizza. Small world.
I just looked at their website and saw that they have been around for 37 years. Wow 18 years I lived there and I have never heard of them.
In any case, Dad said he got a stack of 25% off coupons for Marions so the next time I am in town, I should be set. 
Not Your Average Joe’s in Masschusetts…YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
The place next to Fitzwillie’s in Northampton in Mass.
Pizzaiolo in Oakland - really great thin-crust pizza made in a wood-fired oven.
One odd thing about Pizzaiolo is that the place has no sign. The building it’s in used to be a hardware store, and there’s an old Dutch Boy Paint sign in front. The first time I went there I was invited by a friend who told me the name of the place and the nearest intersection. I couldn’t find it and had to go into a store to ask for help. The place is like a speakeasy in that you just have to know it’s there. Despite this the place is always crowded. For their first couple of years in business they didn’t even take reservations.
Can’t make up my mind yet:D( See Location)
“So the pizza’s Napolidapoli?”
“Napolitan’.”
I’ve heard a lot about them. A lot of people rave about them. One person on another, (road-)food-related discussion forum (also a former New Yorker), famously (on those forums) poo-poos them. (In fact, he’s who I first heard talk about my beloved Troni’s. Said that they were sublime, and the closest to his much-loved and missed New York style pizza that he’s ever had around here. He was certainly dead on about the sublime part.) Still, I will try Flying Pizza someday soon.
Unfortunately, the best out here is a chain. Granted, a fairly unpopular chain (barely in the top 500). Yip, I’m referring to Pizza Pro.
Though Cece’s Pizza is pretty cool because it’s only 4.99 for a buffet.
Pizza Hut in my neck of the woods has crystal chandeliers and musicians with bow ties and tuxes playing the piano. And horrible, nearly unedible pizza.
My 4 year old niece can make better pizza out of rocks she finds in her front yard, and it won’t give you half the stomach ache. I seriously don’t understand how Cece’s is legally allowed to call what they serve “food.”
Around Minneapolis I like the two major local chains Broadway and Davannis.
Going a bit more specialty I love the two neopolitan pizza joins Punch and Pizza Nea.
Frankies and Beeks are common stops also.
If I’m over in St. Paul I always stop at Cossettas.
You knw, when we moved to the Sacramento area we were told to go to Zelda’s and while it is very good pizza it doens’t really strike me as being special. IN fact my favorite Pizza is BJs, which may shock some people, I suppose, but it is a thick crust that is still light as a feather and then the baked in cheese around the edge, the whole tomateos, it is a really really good pizza, IMO. Otherwise I have not found anything truly stand out exceptional in the Sacramento Area.
I heartily recommend Virgilio’s if you are ever in the neighborhood of Wadsworth and Alameda.
What completely eludes me is how Pizza a’ Go Go and Pizza My Heart consistently win “Best Pizza” polls around here. I’ve tried both, and while they’re not quite inedible, they’re pretty awful. Compared to Garret/Jake’s/etc. and FJ&L’s, they’re not even on the same plane of quality.
We have the same thing go on around here in greater Cincinnati. Year in and year out, LaRosa’s consistently takes top honors in the Best Pizza polls, and every year it remains consistently average pizza at best. It’s enough to make you want to chew your own foot off.
Well we have Barone’s Famous Italian for the ultra thin an crispy “authentic” type pizza.
If you want something bigger, there’s Joe Peep’s NY Pizza. They sell a delicious pizza called “The 5969 Calorie Pizza.”
Lido’s Pizza is good too. I’m not much for pizza though so that’s all I know of.
Oh, I also love me some Numero Uno if you’re looking for chain type pizza places.
They do pizza? I had no idea. I have a gift card, maybe I’ll give it a try!
In the southeast corner of Indiana is the City of Madison (featured in the movies MADISON with Jesus & Lil’ Anakin & Laura Dern’s Dad and SOME CAME RUNNING with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Shirley MacLaine). In Madison is a long-standing local pizza parlor “Bello’s” and a recent restaurant “Big Dan’s”- both places have equally wonderful pizza.