Best Of

  • BEST NEW RESTAURANTS 2008
    Twenty-one restaurants, countless thrills. Several of this year's top new spots bend rules and influences; others give classic genres much-needed shots of adrenaline. Either way, all 21 of them loom large in a booming restaurant landscape where it's getting harder and harder to do that.
  • NOTHING BUT NET: 171 GREAT CHICAGO WEB SITES
    Lost in front of the Web address bar? Search engines letting you down? We scoured the Web to find the sites that make the lives of Chicagoans better in the real world, winnowing the chaff from the wheat to give you the best real-estate search, the most active foodie forum, the top local news sources, and much, much more.
  • TOP DOCTORS
    In cooperation with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., we present a list of 355 of the area's best physicians in 56 different medical specialties. In addition, seven doctors weigh in on a wide variety of health issues, and a panel of experts explain how to be a smarter patient.
  • 124 BEST DISHES
    We scoured the city for the top offerings on Chicago's world-class restaurant scene. From appetizer through dessert, from über haute pineapple rum soup to down-home juicy fried chicken, here's your road map to the 124 yummiest dishes around.
  • BEST OF CHICAGO 2007
    Every year we ask ourselves the age-old question: sure, it's good but is it the best? The winners this time include a heavenly slice of pie, the coolest musician around, where to shop for essential goods, the dry cleaner you can trust with your finest duds, and lots more.
  • BEST HIGH SCHOOLS
    A by-the-numbers evaluation of 233 public high schools in the six-county metro area, looking at school spending, as well as teacher experience, test scores, and other academic categories
  • BEST FOOD
    Our best attempt to catalog the city’s finest food and where to get it—from great butchers to a tiny Mexican cremería in Pilsen. As lists go, this one is not nearly comprehensive enough, but you won’t find a better place to start
  • BEST CHEFS
    Meet the city’s foremost kitchen legends, the aces, and the innovators.
  • BEST ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
    We crunched data from more than 1,700 public elementary and middle schools in the Chicago area—evaluating everything from average class size to expenditures per student to standardized test results—and picked the 115 best.
  • BOUTIQUES WE LOVE
    Our unabashedly subjective guide to the designers, stores, and goods that make the city shine
  • BEST OF CHICAGO 2006
    For this year’s Best of Chicago feature, we ate, shopped, visited, interviewed, imbibed, and otherwise sampled our way through the city and suburbs looking for treasures and treats. Somebody had to do it! PLUS: Best of the Neighborhoods
  • BREAKTHROUGH MEDICINE
    24 techniques and treatments that are reshaping the war on disease—and the doctors and scientists spearheading those innovations

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