Readers' Choice Winners 2012

All this summer you've nominated and voted for your favorite local businesses in categories including best taco to best preschool.

We've tallied all the poll votes and now it's time to announce the winners. See below for our complete list of Readers' Choice winners

Entertainment

 - Tie

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• Chicago Heights Winner: 

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• Winner: Frankfort Fall Festival
• 2nd Place: Taste of Orland

Food & Drink

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Best Beef Sandwich

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• Winner: Liang's Garden 

• Winner: Plush Horse in Palos
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Kids & Family

Best Day Care

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Best Music Lessons

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Best Youth Sports Program

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• Winner: Centennial Park Aquatic Center (Orland Park)
• 2nd Place: White Water Canyon Water Park (Tinley Park)

Health & Beauty

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Best Nail Salon

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Best Dentist 

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Best Pediatrician 

• Winner: Tie

• Winner: Mokena Animal Clinic
• 2nd Place: Bremen Animal Hospital

Home

• Winner: McNally's Landscaping

Best Plumber

• Winner: Tie

Best Painter

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Services

• Winner: Salina's Pizza in Tinley Park
• 2nd Place: Heinie McCarthy's in Orland Park

Best Funeral Home

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Best Bank

• Winner: Tie

Sports & Fitness

• Winner: Old Plank Trail
• 2nd Place: Bachelor Grove Woods (151st Street, Orland Park/Oak Forest)

Shopping

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Previous Picks

In an earlier version of Readers' Choice, you selected other local favorites:

• Best Pizza: 
• Best Reuben:

For more information about local businesses, check out our business directory.