Media Alert: Best of Lincoln Park Awards - Finalists and Neighborhood Champions Announced

Finalists and Neighborhood Champions Announced for

Best of Lincoln Park Awards 2017

CHICAGO - (October 27, 2017) The Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce (LPCC) is thrilled to announce the finalists and Neighborhood Champion honorees for the 2017 Best of Lincoln Park Awards.

The public can vote for finalists Friday, October 27 through Monday, November 6 at surveymonkey.com/r/2017bestofFinals. Winners will be announced at an awards ceremony at Victory Gardens Biograph Theater (2433 N. Lincoln) on Monday, November 13, 2017.

Tickets are $40 in advance/$50 at the door. Tickets for Groups of 5 or more are $34. In addition to a brief awards ceremony hosted by WGN Radio's Patti Vasquez, tickets include a pre-show reception beginning at 5:30 p.m. featuring tastes and cocktails from Lincoln Park favorites and desserts in the lobby after a brief awards ceremony. Tickets can be reserved at lincolnparkchamber.com/bestof.

Best of Lincoln Park Finalists and Honorees

Best Place to Dine	Best Place for Coffee & Sweets
Broken English Taco Pub Geja's Cafe Gemini Oyster Bah	The Bagelers Colectivo Coffee La Colombe Sweet Mandy B's

Best Place to Get Refreshed	Best Place for Brunch
The CryoBar Mitchell & Co. Salon and Spa Roots Family Chiropractic Shen Shen Health & Harmony	Batter & Berries Gemini Summer House Santa Monica Toast

Best Place to Grab a Drink	Best Arts & Culture
Birch Road Cellar Broken English Taco Pub HopCat - Chicago J9 Wine Bar	Chicago History Museum Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum Steppenwolf Theatre Victory Gardens Biograph Theater

Best Neighborhood Service Provider	Best Specialty Shop
Bridgeview Bank Lincoln Dental Group Lincoln Park Community Shelter Wintrust Bank Old Town	All She Wrote Art Effect Paper Source TeaGschwendner

Best Place to Get Fit	Best Place to Shop for Your Home
Barry's Bootcamp Fit Body Boot Camp - Lincoln Park Lakeshore Sport & Fitness Webster Place Athletic Club	Bedside Manor Interior Define Jayson Home Roy's Furniture

Best Place to Get Dressed

Art Effect
Bonobos
Francesca's
Lori's Shoes

Neighborhood Champion Honorees Announced

As part of the Best of Lincoln Park Awards, the Lincoln Park Chamber of Commerce (LPCC) will present two Neighborhood Champion Awards; one to a resident and one to an organization or business.

The LPCC is excited to recognize Emerald City Theatre as the organization recipient of the 2017 Neighborhood Champion Award. This award honors a non-profit organization, business, or cause that has made a positive impact within the Lincoln Park community.

Emerald City Theatre provides amazing outreach and educational programming to children in Lincoln Park and across Chicago through their One Fund Campaign and Showtime for CPS Readers: Magic Tree House. Their Showtime for CPS Readers Project, in partnership with Mary Pope Osborne (author of the award-winning Magic Tree House book series) provides an opportunity for 60,000 CPS 2nd and 3rd graders to receive a free Magic Tree House book, a free live stream performance of Magic Tree House: Showtime and Shakespeare, and a free extended Magic Tree House study guide.

The LPCC is thrilled to honor Nada Riley as the 2017 resident recipient of the Neighborhood Champion Award. This award honors a resident within the Lincoln Park neighborhood that has made a positive impact through his or her actions within the community.

Nada, a Lincoln Park resident for over five decades, is a tireless volunteer and advocate for Lincoln Park residents and families. In addition to her work at the Park West Co-Op Nursery School, she serves as a community representative on both the Lincoln Elementary and Lincoln Park High School Local School Councils. She is also a facilities co-coordinator for the #1School1Community program at Lincoln Park High School and has helped to coordinate volunteer painting days that have resulted in 51 classrooms - one third of all classrooms - being painted within one year. She is currently on the Board of the Park West Community Association and member of Lincoln Central Association where she also serves on the Community Affairs Committee and Arts & Culture Committee. For the new Lincoln Common development, Nada has been part of the Neighborhood Liaison Committee with Hines - McCaffery. Her dedication, advocacy and devotion to the community is tireless and a model for great citizenship.