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By: Jordan Mann<\/p>\n Brendan O\u2019Connor, a fan of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, was trying to think of something he could do to promote the campaign in addition to canvassing. He decided to re-brand his restaurant, Big Guys Charbroiled Sausages<\/a>, at 7021 Roosevelt Road in Berwyn, Illinois, by changing the name to Bernie\u2019s<\/a>, at least during the Illinois democratic primary.<\/p>\n In addition to the name change O\u2019Connor added menu items: \u201cThe Bern\u201d a homemade corned beef on marble rye for $10.95, \u201cThe Trump\u201d, a cocktail wiener for $19.99 and \u201cThe Hillary Sausage\u201d, changes every hour on the hour, auctioned to the highest bidder.<\/p>\n O\u2019Connor said he has been interested in politics for as long as he can remember. His mother was a teacher from a union family and liberal, his father a CPA for Northrop Grumman was conservative. O\u2019Connor obviously took after his mother. He pointed out, \u201cIn my family if you have to pick a side you better know what the heck you are talking about\u201d so he studied up on politics.<\/p>\n Big Guy\u2019s sausage stand is named after Bill Davis<\/a>, a Vietnam War veteran, union leader and anti-war activist. Davis was also the father of a close friend of O\u2019Connor\u2019s, they used to go to Bears games together, tailgate and “eat sausage with other union guys.”<\/p>\n This was not O\u2019Connor\u2019s first attempt at making a political statement with his restaurant. Last year he read about an Indiana pizza parlor that used a Go Fund Me page to raise money after losing business when they stated they would not cater gay weddings following the passage of Indiana\u2019s religious freedom bill. As a joke, O\u2019Connor started a Go Fund Me page to raise funds for a \u201cnon-bigoted restaurant.\u201d The page raised over $2000.00, which was used to throw a fundraiser<\/a> for a charity helping LGBT youth. O\u2019Connor wants everyone to know, Big Guy\u2019s will be happy to cater any big gay wedding.<\/p>\n On a side note, The Bern is just about the best corned beef sandwich I have ever tasted, and I have eaten a lot of corned beef.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Jordan Mann Brendan O\u2019Connor, a fan of presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, was trying to think of something he could do to promote the campaign in addition to canvassing. He decided to re-brand his restaurant, Big Guys Charbroiled Sausages, at 7021 Roosevelt Road in Berwyn, Illinois, by changing the name to Bernie\u2019s, at least during […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":1922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,16],"tags":[82,84,289],"class_list":["post-1889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-culture","category-world-events","tag-bernie-sanders","tag-big-guys","tag-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spectator.cuchicago.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"New](\"https:\/\/jmannwordpresscom.files.wordpress.com\/2016\/03\/new-menu-items-big-guys1.jpg\")