Alleycat Comics is an independent comic shop located at 5304 N Clark St. This shop can be missed while walking around in Andersonville. At the other end of a narrow alleyway is a bright beacon of comic books. On my way, very far behind from my friends I had to wait for a woman with [...]
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Zoolights
I think, almost every zoo has some form or another of zoo lights during the winter holidays. I've been to the one hosted by the St.Louis zoo, but this year I went to the zoolights at Lincoln Park zoo. The Lincoln Park zoo is free and for their Zoolights they are open until 9pm. If [...]
CTA holiday train
Every year the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) puts together a holiday train. These trains are elusive since they usually only run maybe once or twice between set times per line per day. The trains, depending on the time can get packed, especially if it's the time people are getting off work. This is usually between [...]
Wolfbait & B-girls
Wolfbait & B-girls is an independently owned shop in Logan Square located at 3131 W. Logan Blvd. The shop hosts locally made wares including clothing, accessories and more from over 150 different designers and artists. The shop is named after a title given to girls in the 1950's who moved to the city in search [...]
Waffles
Waffles is a restaurant found in a couple locations in Chicago. They are open from 8 am to 7pm Monday through Friday and from 8-3pm on Sundays at their 1400 S. Michigan location. They have one more location in Lakeview. I went to the one on Michigan in the South Loop. Since it was still [...]
Dollop
There are a couple Dollop coffee shops in Chicago. The one I went to was located at 345 East Ohio Street. Dollop is a cafe that offers a nice variety of food (mostly sandwiches), pies and sweets along with coffee and tea. Their pies are from Hoosier Mama Pie Company. They have a seasonal menu and I [...]
Bite Cafe
A friend and I headed to the bite cafe in the Ukrainian village for brunch. There isn't a direct train line to the spot and since it was Sunday the busses were not coming by very often. I walked pretty far from the blue line to the Bite Cafe. It wasn't a bad walk, there [...]
Lifeline Theatre
Lifeline Theatre can be found in Rogers Park at 6912 N Glenwood Avenue near the Morse red line stop. The theater takes books and adapts them into plays. They split up their plays into main stage and kid series. I've seen one play in their actual theater, "The Count of Monte Cristo", and I loved [...]
Hoosier Mama Pie Company
My friend lives in the neighborhood of this Hoosier Mama Pie Company and has told me how dangerous it has been, being so close to so many delicious pies. The shop is cute and small, a mint green with many cook books around. It has three places to sit, one in the window that is [...]
Coffee and Tea Exchange
The Coffee and Tea Exchange is located on 3311 N. Broadway in Lake view. The Coffee and Tea Exchange is a shop packed with coffee beans, tea, spices, pastries and more. You can buy loose leaf teas or coffee beans to take home or have them made for you there. They have a wall filled [...]