Thank you to everyone who made nominations for the Best of Chicago 2021. We are tabulating and will reveal the finalists when we publish the final multiple choice Best of Chicago voting ballot on Wednesday, January 12, 2022.
The top nominees in each category will face off in the final Best of Chicago ballot voting beginning at noon CST on Wednesday, January 12, right here. (You can reach this page by going to chicagoreader.com/best.) Final voting will run until noon on Wednesday, February 2, and winners will be announced in print and online with the publication of the March 3, 2022 special Best of Chicago 2021 issue.
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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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