ANNOUNCING: The Most Stylish Neighborhood in Chicago

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Welcome back to Neighborhood Style Showdown, our quest to determine the City of Chicago's most stylish neighborhood.

One week ago today, we asked the people of the nation which Chicago neighborhood was the most stylish. It has been a grueling week of competition, but the votes are in and the answer is Lakeview's Southport Corridor. The neighborhood is home to locally owned boutiques and a host of national players mixed with cultural landmarks and the prospect of new retail developments. In Lakeview's journey to the throne, we saw the crushing defeat of Andersonville and the embarrassing thrashing of Logan Square before narrowly taking the lead from Pilsen, upsetting thousands of hipsters in its wake of victory.

So that's all, folks. We'll see you next March for another mad round of neighborhood deathmatches and until then, we trust that you'll wear your neighborhood on your sleeve and represent your hyper-local culture in the very best light.
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