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Pekarik owns Cupcakes for Courage, a mobile cupcake shop that makes stops along the streets of Chicago almost every day. She donates 10 percent of sales to cancer-related charities as a way to honor her sister Kathy, who was diagnosed with lymphoma in 2010 and now is in remission.

Food trucks from the Chicago area are firing up the griddles and putting their trucks in gear, bound for Winnetka.

A Chicago ordinance allowing food trucks to cook onboard appears ready to move forward

“You technically can’t even dispense a cup of coffee or even let customers squirt salsa on the taco themselves.”

Take an otherwise delicious thing – a taco – and run it through the bizzaro-world restrictions the city places on food trucks

The lunch truck delivers many an old favorite, like sub sandwich, and many a new favorite, like pincho. Pincho means skewer.

From sausages to cupcakes, we help you navigate a movement that's in overdrive.

"And later I went back to City Provisions and said, 'I'm not doing a food truck. I'm not doing a food truck. Wait, I should do a food truck.'"

Mobile food is a trend gaining traction as cultural acceptance grows.

Owner Amanda Cavazos tells The Stew that the popular truck, which she put away on a "winter siesta," is a victim of Chicago's current food truck laws which prevent cooking on the vehicle.