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WAX TRAX! - 2449 Lincoln Ave. Landmark Status

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Anonymous
1 year ago

Long live Wax Trax!

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Jill Bollero
1 year ago

My friends and I would take a parent’s car and sneak into the city to go to Wax Trax and buy giant posters and later, become huge 242 fans. Hell yeah it’s a landmark.

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Beth Burdiin
1 year ago

It was an amazing part of the Chicago music scene and I think we need a tribute site to acknowledge Chicago’s place in the form of this genre. Creating a touchpoint could be a draw, a shrine, a museum of Chicago music history which was influential way beyond the Midwest.

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Kurt Koeller
1 year ago

It was a Great place!

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Susan Caamano
1 year ago

Yes make it a landmark!

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Clay Tomasek
1 year ago

Wax Trax was a special place. So many memories shopping there and finding the coolest stuff. Kenny Vaughn, guitarist with Marty Stuart, lived upstairs when he was in a band from Denver called the Jonny Boy 3.

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Anthony Rio
1 year ago

Wax Trax! was a big deal to me when I was growing up. It is the whole reason I opened up my own record store in 2023.

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Mary Reagan-Vorasorn
1 year ago

Yes! Make it a chicago landmark!!!

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Jennifer Temple
1 year ago

A part of my history for sure!

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SpazCiao Uglatto
1 year ago

This building and business it held was as instrumental to my upbringing, philosophy and ethics. My Mother had the Biograph growing up and she always joked I had Wax-Trax. I think this place was very important to the history of Chicago.

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Paul Springer
1 year ago

Great shop, and deserving of preservation!

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Maureen Kelly
1 year ago

Iconic!

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Andrew Charlton
1 year ago

Best record store on earth. Please don’t let it disappear.

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Debra ONeill Laukaitis
1 year ago

Very important part of Chicago history to be sure. Epicenter of Punk, New Wave and pretty much all music

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Anonymous
1 year ago

Keep Wax Traxx’s memory alive! :)

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Bass
1 year ago

All in for this!!

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Shawn Redner
1 year ago

This place was the pinnacle for finding new music and the destination for us suburban punk rock kids in the 80's

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Antonin Hosek
1 year ago

Commemoration of sites like this is important for a town's historical identity.

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Chris Early
1 year ago

Wax Trax forever!

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Anonymous
1 year ago

Wax trax was a great store!!