When we opened voting for our annual Readers’ Choice Dining Awards back on March 4, few could have predicted that the rapid spread of COVID-19 would close dine-in service at all Illinois restaurants and bars starting March 16.
During the two-week contest, thousands of votes poured in for your favorite Chicago area restaurants across 15 categories, and the winners were to be announced April 1. But announcing those winners seems so beside the point during the shutdown, when you can’t go out to enjoy them fully. So we have decided to postpone that announcement until after the area’s restaurants and bars can open again.
In the meantime, please consider supporting your local restaurants and bars by ordering delivery and pickup (our database lists more than 1,300) and contributing to the fundraisers launched by many of them.
