{"id":189783,"date":"2025-10-09T07:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=189783"},"modified":"2025-10-09T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T05:32:09","slug":"ninth-year-in-a-row-chicago-named-the-best-big-city-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/ninth-year-in-a-row-chicago-named-the-best-big-city-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"NINTH YEAR IN A ROW: Chicago named the best big city in America!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Chicago has been chosen as the \u201cBest Big City\u201d for the ninth consecutive year, according to the readers\u2019 poll of the travel magazine <em>Cond\u00e9 Nast Traveler.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More than 750,000 votes were submitted for this year\u2019s Readers\u2019 Choice Awards, and the magazine noted that such a nine-year winning streak is unprecedented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhile critics try to portray Chicago as something to be feared, the rest of the world knows the truth \u2014 this is the best big city in America,\u201d said Governor Pritzker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cChicago is a city of strength, resilience, and heart, driven by people who welcome visitors from all over the world with incomparable warmth and pride. For the ninth year in a row, the most discerning travelers have recognized what we already know: nobody does it like Chicago. No narrative can change that fact, because the spirit of this city is simply unstoppable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The organization <em>Choose Chicago<\/em> announced that local hotels had their best summer season ever, both in room demand and revenue. During June, July, and August, more than 3.56 million overnight stays were recorded, a 4.3% increase compared to 2024, surpassing the previous record set in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>San Francisco was named the second-best big city, followed closely by Milwaukee. 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More than 750,000 votes were submitted for this year\u2019s Readers\u2019 Choice Awards, and the magazine noted that such a nine-year winning streak is unprecedented. \u201cWhile critics try to portray [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":176430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[71,1183,9106,4001,23],"class_list":["post-189783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-america","tag-amerika","tag-cikago-3","tag-najbolji-veliki-grad","tag-priznanje","tag-sad","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189783"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189795,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189783\/revisions\/189795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}