Music & Nightlife
- Readers' Poll Winners
- Best local band that’s been around forever
- Best new local band
- Best local rock band
- Best local hip-hop artist
- Best local metal band
- Best jazz musician
- Best blues band
- Best country band
- Best singer-songwriter
- Best local DJ
- Best band name
- Best local music blog
- Best nightlife blogger
- Best bartender
- Best local label
- Best party promoter
- Best musical festival
- Best music venue
- Best rock club
- Best hip-hop club
- Best jazz club
- Best blues club
- Best underground music venue
- Best dance club
- Best dance party
- Best LGBT dance party
- Best gay bar
- Best lesbian bar
- Best nongay gay bar
- Best anything-goes club
- Best new bar
- Best dive bar
- Best neighborhood bar
- Best hotel bar
- Best 4 AM bar
- Best strip club
- Best casino
- Best smoking area
- Best photobooth to make out in
- Best jukebox
- Best karaoke
- Reader Critics' Picks
- Best bartender
- Best band-on-band synergy
- Best musical wunderkind who could use a nap
- Best jazz musician
- Best dancing front man
- Best go-go dancers
- Best show that made me feel like I bathed in radioactive grime
- Best local DJ on Twitter
- Best local response to a national music meme
- Best musical YouTube sensation
- Best Chicago dance-music style to recently go global
- Best local reunion show
- Best new band that will make you think it’s 1995 again
- Best weekly live-music gig
- Best bluegrass music series
- Best experimental-music resource
- Best late-season festival surprise
- Best merch
- Best reinvention of an old medium
- Best local sports icon unconventionally reinterpreted as the face of Midwestern microscenes
- Best place to hear work by Wandelweiser Group composers
- Best place to hear a band of nine-year-old girls that sounds like the Urinals
- Best urinal
- Best venue to escape a bad opening band
- Best nontraditional music venue
- Best beer inspired by a Chicago band
- Best karaoke venue that gives you a plate of bacon if you buy two pitchers of beer
- Best bar for drinking on pocket change
- Best place to lose at pool
- Best bar that’s 15 feet wide
- Best place to watch people dance to the jukebox
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