Hmmmm....I know of two great locations. They should scope out:
1) Where the Howard Brown Clinic retail store ("The Brown Elephant")used to be, on Ashland south of Irving Park Road. It even has a parking lot (!), and there hasn't been any edible barbamaque in that part of town since Larry Tucker closed up shop at NN Smokehouse.
2) Where Meier's Bakery used to be on Main St. in Evanston, just west of Chicago Avenue (parking lot just across the street). They could clean up there in a BIG way, I bet. No decent barbamaque in all of SE Evanston, Skokie, Rogers Park....the only true competition would be Hecky's, of course, but they are all the way on the other side of Evanston. Merle's doesn't count, IMO. We're dyin' up here!
PS Tangentially Related Matter: I had the pleasure of drinking coffee and yakking with Larry Tucker, of NN Smokehouse fame - I was doing some work around the corner from LT's Grill, and was delighted to find that Larry opens up shop at 8:00 AM, so I had multiple days to drop in and start the day off right. Here's the deal with the hours: Breakfast & lunch only, and brunch only on the weekends; one can rent the place out in the evening for private functions. He just remarried in February, an all is well - he is a really fun guy. So stop in and chow down....but do be advised that the only barbamaque on the menu is a pulled pork sandwich.