Get involved…
Do you, your local business, or other local favorite deserve to be honored as the Best of Chicago? Find the category or categories where you or your favorites qualify: Nominate, vote — and start promoting!
Nominating, voting, and announcement of the winners will all take place at:
Find your section
Use these shortcut URLs to link or point directly to your Best of Chicago group of categories:
Arts & Culture: chicagoreader.com/bestArts
Buy Local: chicagoreader.com/bestBuy
Cannabis: chicagoreader.com/bestCannabis
City Life: chicagoreader.com/bestCity
Food & Drink: chicagoreader.com/bestFood
Music & Nightlife: chicagoreader.com/bestMusic
Sports & Recreation: chicagoreader.com/bestSports
In your campaigning on social media, use the hashtags:
#BOC2021 #BestofChi
Use and share these images!
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Sample text for your social media sharing
Nomination round
LinkedIn and Facebook:
Twitter (Click to tweet):
Voting round
LinkedIn and Facebook:
Twitter (Click to tweet):
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And don’t forget, if you’re interested in advertising online or in print during Best of Chicago nominating and voting and in our Best Of Chicago issue on March 3, you can find information at chicagoreader.com/ads or email us directly at ads@chicagoreader.com.
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Where and when
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.
The ballot for first round nominations and final voting is below. This ballot will be back at chicagoreader.com/best and populated with finalists—including finalists in the additional bonus categories—for multiple-choice final voting on Wednesday, January 12:
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