Why are Chicagoans so obsessed with Italian sausage on pizza?
Sausage is the Np. 1 topping at Villa Nova in suburban Stickney, another practitioner of tavern-style thin crust. The pizzeria gets its fennel-heavy sausage blend prepared specially for it by the same meat shop it’s worked with since 1955.
Villa Nova is not shy with its application of sausage. In fact, it goes further than most. Each sausage pizza comes with golf-ball-sized pieces of Italian sausage positioned precisely on the thin crust in a grid pattern so that every square slice has a sausage right in the middle.
—Nick Kindelsperger from Chicago Tribune