It’s our favorite time of the year at the Reader, when our community comes together to highlight and celebrate the very best our city has to offer! We are looking for the BEST OF CHICAGO! Over the coming weeks, readers like you will have the chance to uplift your favorite people, places, and things for these coveted bragging rights and community boost. Everyone can nominate and vote on the finalists!
The ballot
This year’s winners will be selected in two rounds of nominations and one round of final voting.
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It all happens right here at:
Nominations
Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2021, at noon CST until Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2021 at noon CST
Bonus round of nominations*
Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2021 at noon CST until Wednesday Jan. 5, 2022 at noon CST
*On additional categories that we should have included in the first round of nominations but didn’t: the most popular categories nominated in a special first-round category
Final voting
Wednesday, January 12, 2022, at noon CST until Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022 at noon CST.
The most popular nominations in each category will make it to the voting round: a multiple-choice ballot to choose the Best of Chicago!
Winners will be announced with the special Best of Chicago issue of March 3, 2022 — online and in print.
Get involved…
Do you, your local business, or other local favorite deserve to be honored as the Best of Chicago? Be sure to nominate and vote! And check out our toolkit of social media assets and other resources to build a campaign.
For purposes of the Best of Chicago, “Chicago” may be generously interpreted as the Chicago area except where the category is specific to a city neighborhood or to the suburbs. We may at our discretion exclude any nominees we determine to be outside the Chicago area for their categories and we reserve the right to exclude any suspicious, abusive, or nonqualifying nominations or votes.
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