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More than 60 food inspectors monitor vendors booths at Taste of Chicago. For them, the festival is a long day of battling crowds and sticking thermometers into meat.
Students at Chicago's Washburne Culinary Institute are slicing, dicing and cooking up a taste by taste tour of some of the city's best restaurants for the Taste of Chicago, which opens today.