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Radio Extra: Marie's Pizza Decks the Halls and Pretty Much Everything Else

By  Jon Hansen and Patty Wetli | December 19, 2014 1:17pm 

 For more than 40 years, Marie's Pizza has been dazzling customers with its annual Christmas fantasia.
For more than 40 years, Marie's Pizza has been dazzling customers with its annual Christmas fantasia.
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MAYFAIR — Deck the halls? That's for amateurs.

For more than 40 years, Marie's Pizza has been dazzling customers with its annual Christmas fantasia. To enter the doors at 4127 W. Lawrence Ave. is to fall down a rabbit hole that leads to a singular display of holiday sparkle and glitter notable for its sheer exuberance and unabashed embrace of the season's message of joy and wonder.

On this DNAinfo Radio Extra, Patty Wetli explains how the tradition began and why Marie's owner continues it today:

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