{"id":4268,"date":"2016-02-01T08:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T13:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/?p=4268"},"modified":"2019-10-17T09:41:20","modified_gmt":"2019-10-17T14:41:20","slug":"poll-what-are-the-bestworst-parts-of-winter-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/poll-what-are-the-bestworst-parts-of-winter-in-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Poll: What Are the Best\/Worst Parts of Winter in Chicago?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter can be a pretty polarizing season. Chicago gets cold, there\u2019s no doubt about it \u2013 but to some, that\u2019s just part of living in the Windy City.<\/p>\n<p>This winter has been undoubtedly warmer and less harsh than recent years past, but has anyone really forgotten about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/breaking\/chi-chicago-blizzard-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 inches of snow<\/a> we were hammered with at the beginning of February last year? We haven\u2019t, and the commuters on Lake Shore Drive when it was shut down probably haven\u2019t either.<\/p>\n<p>Still, the city doesn\u2019t just die when the weather gets chillier. The museums offer plenty of free days for respite, and you can\u2019t exactly skate around <a href=\"https:\/\/urbanmatter.com\/chicago\/millennium-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Millennium Park<\/a> during the summer.<\/p>\n<p>All the back and forth caused us to start thinking&#8230; What are the best and worst parts of winter in Chicago? It&#8217;s hard to say, so we&#8217;re letting you decide for us.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the polls below and choose your favorite answer of the bunch. Don\u2019t forget to answer them both. And yes, we purposefully saved the best for last.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[total-poll id=4421]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[total-poll id=4420]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter can be a pretty polarizing season. Chicago gets cold, there\u2019s no doubt about it \u2013 but to some, that\u2019s just part of living in the Windy City.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2279,"featured_media":4270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[755,26324],"tags":[1027,1385],"class_list":["post-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-category-things-to-do","category-category-winter-hub","tag-poll","tag-winter-in-chicago"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.4 (Yoast SEO v26.8) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Poll: What Are the Best\/Worst Parts of Winter in Chicago? | UrbanMatter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"What are the best and worst parts of winter in Chicago? It&#039;s hard to say, so we&#039;re letting you decide for us. 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