🏆 CHICAGO SAID PUT SOME RESPECT ON OUR NAME! BEST BIG CITY IN AMERICA FOR THE 10TH YEAR STRAIGHT! 🌆🔥

📍CHICAGO, stand up because apparently the rest of the country keeps trying, and the Windy City keeps bringing the trophy back home. 😂

For a record 10th consecutive year, readers of Condé Nast Traveler have voted Chicago the Best Big City in the United States in the magazine’s 2026 Readers’ Choice Awards. Nearly 800,000 votes were cast across this year’s travel awards. Chicago is the first and only city to hold this particular title for 10 straight years. Condé Nast Traveler

Yes.

TEN. YEARS. IN. A. ROW.

At this point, don't even ship the trophy anywhere else. Leave it on the porch. We'll bring it inside. 😂🏆

🌆 WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP PICKING CHICAGO?

You already KNOW.

The skyline.

The lakefront.

The architecture.

The museums.

The food.

The neighborhoods.

The festivals.

The music.

And let's not play with Chicago's contribution to music either. House music was born here, Chicago blues helped change American music, and our gospel, R&B and hip-hop history runs DEEP.

Then there's the food.

Italian beef.

Deep dish.

Tavern-style pizza.

Harold's.

Jibaritos.

Maxwell Street Polish.

And don't walk into the wrong room trying to explain why your city has better mild sauce. We don't have time today. 😂

Chicago welcomed 56.8 million visitors in 2025, with visitor spending reaching a record $21.5 billion, according to Choose Chicago. Choose Chicago

🎉 AND CHICAGO IS ACTUALLY CELEBRATING

The city has proclaimed Saturday, October 10, “Best Big City Day” to celebrate the perfect 10.

Choose Chicago says festivities will include a Chicago Riverwalk set by house-music pioneer DJ Lori Branch, plus other promotions around the city. Choose Chicago

💥 LADY RED SAYS...

Listen, Chicago has problems.

We know it.

Traffic will make you question every decision you've made since birth.

Construction season apparently lasts from January through January.

And the weather will give you all four seasons before lunchtime.

But Chicago is still CHICAGO.

You can spend the afternoon on the lakefront, eat something ridiculous, hear somebody playing house music somewhere, watch the sun bounce off that skyline and suddenly remember:

BABY, THIS CITY IS BEAUTIFUL.

So congratulations, Chicago.

BEST BIG CITY IN AMERICA.

Not once.

Not twice.

TEN DAMN YEARS IN A ROW. 🏆🏆🏆

And since this is 730 BOOM, we gotta say it:

CHICAGO IS HOME. THE WORLD IS WELCOME. 🌆❤️

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