Vote For The Best of McKinley Park

What are your favorites in Chicago’s McKinley Park neighborhood? For the second year in a row, the McKinley Park News presents The Best of McKinley Park: our members’ choice polls highlighting the best in our neighborhood’s Dining, Shopping, Services and Community.

Logged-in members and subscribers can comment and vote in each poll: one vote per poll per person. Live poll results update as votes roll in. If you’d like to vote, but don’t have a membership, it’s easy to sign up for free.

Vote Through Thanksgiving

Voting for The Best of McKinley Park runs through Thanksgiving night, Thursday, November 26, 2026. After polls close, we share the results and celebrate the winners in each category.

The Best of McKinley Park promotes all of the candidates in each category, and we hope you discover parts of our neighborhood that are new to you.

Your Privacy Is Assured

Lorena and Jamie Sotelo run Chile Toreado, a multiple award-winning restaurant in 2025's The Best of McKinley Park.Your votes stay private. Unlike others, only the McKinley Park News protects your privacy throughout our service, including polls and membership.

In addition to Terms of Service that do not sell or share any user information, our polls run entirely within our own platform: keeping your personal choices out of the hands of consumer surveillance companies that profit from selling your identity. See our User Technology Recommendations for tips to protect your privacy and security.

100 Percent Human

We are immensely proud of the independent, human community that comprises our members, and we work to ensure that spammers, bots, AI and other harmful actors do not find a home here.

Through a variety of methods, we curate our community and new sign-ups, immediately deleting spam and bot accounts, and reaching out directly if there are any questions.

No Ballot-Stuffing

Likewise, we continually monitor our website’s interactive features, including polls, for violations of terms and spirit. For example, in some past polls, we’ve deleted votes comprising ballot-stuffing and the inauthentic accounts from which they originated.

Find past results from the 2025 The Best of McKinley Park within each currently active poll. We will conduct The Best of McKinley Park every year, maintaining an archive of past results and member comments.

Updated for 2026

For this year, we’ve updated each poll with the most current neighborhood information: adding new contestants and removing those no longer active. Likewise, we will add entries to polls this fall as any new enterprises open up in our McKinley Park neighborhood.

All readers are welcome to submit ideas, omissions and corrections by sending email to info@mckinleypark.news, and members can post comments directly to polls.

Vote for The Best of McKinley Park

We thank you for your interest and your support for all of these contestants that comprise the fabric of our wonderful neighborhood. We look forward to your votes and again celebrating The Best of McKinley Park!

Click here to View Results and Vote in The Best of McKinley Park.