Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Chicago’s best indie-rock record and CD emporium lets you listen to everything before you buy. There's plenty of elbow room in the big, sunny space, which…
Must-see shopping in Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
The epicenter of Chicago’s comic and zine worlds, Quimby’s is one of the linchpins of underground literary culture in the city. Here you can find…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
If you want to take a bit of Chi-town home with you, check out these locally made, Chicago-inspired wares – souvenirs with style. Just about anything that…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Old-school soul, Latin beats, American gospel, bass-stabbing hip-hop, every flavor of jazz – if it’s funky, Dusty Groove (which also has its own record…
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Wicker Park Secret Agent Supply Co
Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
This place sells 'espionagical wares' (aka crazy spy and detective gear): mustache disguise kits, underwater voice amplifiers, Sherlock Holmes deerstalker…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Bold and colorful shoes by the eccentric Canadian designer are the order of the day at this spacious haven for fans of funky footwear. They come as tough…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
It's a fine spot to browse for a pillbox hat or a classic houndstooth-check jacket. Along with its vintage wares, Una Mae’s has a collection of new, cool…
Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Japanese and Nordic design share similar features, including clean lines, minimal adornments and references to the natural world. So when former architect…
Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
This well-curated vintage shop in Noble Square stocks a selection of beautiful modern furniture and home decor, from teak credenzas to vintage Eames…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Incense envelops you at the door, and you know right away you’re in for a hippie-flavored treat. Mounds of internationally styled baubles rise up from the…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
The ‘deli’ part is taken seriously here: after cooking (ie ironing a retro design on) your T-shirt, it's wrapped in butcher paper and served to you with…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Penelope’s is a warm boutique for twenty- and thirty-somethings. It offers both men’s and women’s fashions (they’re new, but look thrift-store-bought)…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
'Come In, We're Awesome' says the sign on the front door. Gregarious owner Julie has been running this Bucktown boutique for two decades and it's become a…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Myopic is one of the city’s oldest and largest used bookstores, with stacks upon stacks of tomes (about 70,000 by the shop's count). It rambles through…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Rack after rack of ‘70s bowling, Hawaiian and western-wear shirts, leather motorcycle jackets, cowboy boots and secondhand jeans (including big-name…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Held on the second Saturday and last Sunday of each month of the colder half of the year, this event at the Empty Bottle showcases Chicagoland crafters…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Do some olfactory ogling at this high-end Parisian perfumer's Bucktown boutique – its heady blends come in woody, citrus, floral and other scent…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
The smell of incense greets you as you walk in to peruse the array of Bionic Woman lunch boxes, celebrity-saint pillar candles, New Kids on the Block…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Looking for a Street Sweeper or a pair of Lakais? Uprise is the city’s top spot for skateboarders to pick up gear, boards and tips on the local scene…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
The smallish shop carries lots of soul and funk vinyl, plus a bit of everything else, from stoner doom to Native American ballads. It's also a great place…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Stacks and racks of premium denim fill this roomy shop, which feels a bit like a country store, albeit one stocked with leather boots, fashionable women's…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
You can buy, sell or trade your duds at this well-regarded secondhand clothing shop for men and women. Part of a national chain, the Wicker Park outpost…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
When hip west-side twenty-somethings decide to get steady jobs and start having kids, this is where they outfit the li’l pups. Adorable clothes, classic…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Ragstock is a giant shop for new and used clothing where you can find all sorts of idiosyncratic outfits. There are plenty of Halloween costumes, as well…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Owned by the same parent company as Urban Outfitters (young hipster styles) and Anthropologie (older feminine styles), Free People lands in the middle…
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Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
Several design students work at this local fashion house, which stocks up-and-coming and newly popular lines of women's clothing. The stylish jeans,…
