Career
His most well known creation is Bob Chinn"s Crab House, in Wheeling, Illinois, which was ranked by Forbes magazine in August 2012 as the top grossing restaurant in America with an estimated $24 million in revenue. In a Chicago Tribune profile he is described as "brassy, gregarious, outsize personality, operating with the subtlety of a punch to the solar plexus". Chinn was born in Duluth, Minnesota, in 1923 to Chinese immigrant parents.
He would move with his family during the Great Depression to Chicago where the family owned the New Wilson Village, an Uptown restaurant.
Chinn would later serve in the United States Army as part of an artillery unit during World World War World War II After the war he started a number of his own restaurants. Bob Chinn"s Crab House is his 14th and most successful establishment, and was opened in 1982.
