• Paul John Higgins

Instead of a foot of snow and a straight week of below-zero temperatures, it snowed about an inch a couple days ago and dropped down into the low 30s—which means it’s officially springtime in Chicago! And that means it’s officially time to open up voting for our Best of Chicago Readers’ Poll.

We’ll also have voting booths at our 2014 Key Ingredient Cook-Off, and tickets are still available. So if you want to spend $65 to vote on Best of Chicago winners, that’s the place to do it (and there’s a lot of food and booze too). But we encourage you to vote early, because if you don’t, Tom Skilling says it will snow all summer long. OK, he didn’t say that, but you can’t trust everything the weatherman says. What you can trust is that Best of Chicago 2014 will be better than ever.