La Michoacana Meat Market

About this location

A few stories people tell about this place

1. At nightfall, a delivery driver pulled up to La Michoacana Meat Market. As he unloaded boxes, he noticed an odd message scrawled on the side of the cooler: ‘Today’s special—steaks so tender they’ll melt in your mouth… or on the floor.’ Curious, he glanced inside and saw rows of steaks glistening under fluorescent lights. Just as he bent down to inspect one closer, a voice whispered from behind: 'Hey, pal, those are for tonight's dinner!' Turned out it was just a friendly neighborhood butcher with a sense of humor.

2. A customer approached the butcher counter and asked with a straight face, 'Do you have any meat from unicorns?' The butcher paused for a moment before replying... The butcher looked up with a straight face and replied, ‘We usually don’t carry unicorn meat, sir, but I can check our special orders section.’ A regular nearby overheard and chimed in, ‘I saw them last week—looks like rainbow-colored chicken!’ Everyone burst out laughing, including the butcher, who shook his head and said, “Welcome to La Michoacana, where even unicorns are just another cut of meat.”

3. Early every morning, before the sun rose over downtown Chicago, a faint humming sound could be heard coming from La Michoacana Meat Market. It grew louder as daybreak approached, drawing curious neighbors who peered through their windows. One morning, an elderly neighbor decided to investigate and followed the humming all the way inside. Turned out it was just a delivery driver tuning his radio to his favorite Mexican station. The old man laughed heartily, thinking he’d stumbled upon something exotic, and from then on, everyone in the neighborhood knew that La Michoacana Meat Market had the best salsa playlist around.

4. At dawn, a neighborhood dog began howling incessantly outside La Michoacana Meat Market. The butchers ignored it at first, but soon customers started noticing too. No one could figure out why the canine was so distressed until one day, an old lady exclaimed, ‘It’s probably guarding the secret sausage recipe!’ Finally, someone suggested calling the delivery driver who always parked nearby. When he arrived, everyone watched as he casually opened his truck door—revealing a whole shelf of identical packages labeled ‘La Michoacana Secret Sausage.’ Turns out, the dog had been guarding nothing more than a bunch of funny-looking sausages meant for a prank on Halloween.