Arts & Culture
- Readers' Poll Winners
- Best ultimate art institution
- Best long-running play
- Best new play
- Best touring play
- Best theater company
- Best off-loop theater company
- Best stage director
- Best local actor
- Best local actress
- Best stand-up
- Best sketch/improv Troupe
- Best venue for stand-up
- Best dance troupe
- Best burlesque troupe
- Best new gallery
- Best gallery exhibit
- Best underground art space
- Best established visual artist
- Best new visual artist
- Best photographer
- Best street artist
- Best public art work
- Best public art event
- Best advocate for the arts
- Best art sale
- Best museum exhibit
- Best after-hours event at a museum
- Best movie theater
- Best local film house
- Best local film festival
- best local filmmaker
- Best local author
- Best local nonfiction writer
- Best new novel by a Chicagoan
- Best local poet
- Best literary event
- Reader Critics' Picks
- Best city cultural representative, especially since Lois Weisberg's cavalier dismissal
- Best revival of a great lost project
- Best Chicago theater that doesn't yet have a regional Tony
- Best improvised communal response to tyranny
- Best foreign theater program that will do nicely until Chicago gets another international theater festival
- Best of dance on a shoestring
- Best dance trance space
- Best free dance extravaganza
- Best comedy variety show
- Best artists
- Best new art space adjoining a loading dockBest 100-year-old murals
- Best use of old styles in new art
- Best sidewalk with incised poetry
- Best film about Chicago
- Best-ever film fantasy of Chicago
- Best Hollywood use of a neighborhood pool hall
- Best bar in a movie theater
- Best local filmmaker
- Best repertory programmer
- Best new movie theater
- Best movie theater that should be reopened
- Best place to see creepy and classic movies
- Best queer Hasidic novelist
- Best book on Harold Washington
- Best Chicago writer who also owns a bar
- Best book of love letters ever written to a Chicago writer
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