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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…