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Chicago Ranked Among America's Top 10 Best Cities For Barbecue
If you plan to celebrate the holiday weekend with a pulled pork sandwich or a rack of ribs, you're in the right place.
CHICAGO — It’s barbecue season and Chicago is one of the best places in the country to enjoy this tasty time of year, according to a recent ranking.
Lawn services website LawnStarter compiled a list of 2024’s best barbecue cities in America, with the Windy City coming in ninth.
To determine the top cities for barbecue, LawnStarter considered a number of factors and grouped them into five categories: access, consumer satisfaction, competition awards, elite barbecue memberships and hosting. The website calculated city scores in each factor and category as well as an overall score reflecting a city's average across all criteria.
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Kansas City, Missouri, unsurprisingly, came in first on the list with an overall score of 55.13, followed by Memphis with 47.74 and Houston with 43.95.
Chicago scored 34.1 and ranked between San Antonio at 34.66 and New York at 31.69.
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