Timbuk2 is located at 1623 North Damen Avenue. There are a few stores in other places (such as Singapore, Seattle, and San Franscisco) The shop was started in San Fanscisco by a bike messenger and has grown since. They mostly make bags. I had heard about them because they hosted what sounded like a fun shop opening, [...]
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The Boring Store
A friend of mine volunteers at The Boring Store, which is not an awesome spy shop store. All of the stores proceeds go towards 826Chi which is a non-profit organization that helps out kids from 6-18 years of age with writing and tutoring. The Boring Store even sells some of the works the students create. [...]
Quimby’s
Quimby's is an independent bookstore for zines. The store is rather quiet and one of a couple stores in the area that doesn't allow phone calls. It has a strange air, the workers don't talk much, but the store has a nice collection of zines and independent comic books. They do have other things like [...]
Myopic books
Myopic books is a used bookstore in Wicker park. It is about 3 and half floors. The basement has a low ceiling and contains mostly biographies but also things like suspense, horror, true crime, and sci-fi. The main floor is where they'll take any large bags from you and give you a card for while [...]
Renegade Craft Fair
The Renegade Craft Fair happens usually in early September in Wicker Park. It's a traveling craft fair. A person could spend all day looking at each of the booths, at all of the interesting wares. Because it's outside there tend to be several dogs out walking around with their owners and sometimes there are even [...]