Souvenir shopping in Chicago
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City of Chicago Store
This city-run store is a mecca for those wise enough not to try to steal their own ‘official’ souvenirs. Cheerful city workers will sell you anything from a decommissioned city parking meter ($175) to street signs for famous local streets ($50). The usual array of Chicago books, shot glasses and pint-sized metal replicas of the city’s tallest buildings are also available.
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Antiques Centre at Kinzie Square
If you're after a priceless souvenir of the old USA, then this is your place. Twenty different dealers peddle high-end homewares, ceramics and art from the 18th and 19th centuries. Although very competitive price-wise, the high quality ensures that you won't come out of here without racking up some serious damage to your credit card.
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Sports World
This store across from Wrigley Field overflows with – that’s right, Sherlock – Cubs sportswear. It carries all shapes and sizes of jerseys, T-shirts, sweatshirts and ball caps, plus baby clothes and drink flasks. Surprisingly, the prices aren’t bad given the attraction-side location.
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Shop at the Cultural Center
The Chicago Cultural Center’s shop is a stellar place for Chicago-oriented souvenirs, especially books by local authors. The Chicago Publishers Gallery is on-site at the center, and so many of the comics, history books, zines and poetry books displayed there are for sale here.
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Chicago Tribune Store
While this small store doesn’t have the selection of other souvenir places in Chicago, it does outdo its competitors in Tribune-related merchandise. Cubs and Blackhawks hats and jerseys, and books by noted Chicago authors are also available.
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Chicago Architecture Foundation Shop
Skyscraper playing cards, Frank Lloyd Wright note cards and heaps of books and posters celebrate local architecture at this haven for anyone with an edifice complex. The items make excellent only-in-Chicago-type souvenirs.
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