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WAX TRAX! - 2449 Lincoln Ave. Landmark Status

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R D Atwell
1 year ago

From 1983 to 1987 I was a regular customer at the store. It was the primary place in Chicago to find the best music, get info on shows and to make friends. It was a very important part of my life and the lives of many other people and as such, it certainly deserves some special recognition.

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Patrick Grueber
1 year ago

WaxTrax! 4eva!

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Don Weismantel
1 year ago

WAX TRAX and the birth of Industrial Music should be celebrated. At that time, for that genre of music and lifestyle, Chicago was the center of the Earth!

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Nate Whetten
1 year ago

Wax Trax! was such a huge part of my teen years!

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Philip Rothenberger
1 year ago

100% have this place on my list to some day travel to and visit!

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Tara Salt
1 year ago

A lot of this music shaped my life.

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Loki Lockwood
1 year ago

The music that came out of this building changed my musical tastes for the better. And I live on the other side of the world [Australia]

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Carolyn Aguila
1 year ago

Yes. This needs to be a landmark. Wax Trax was an integral part of the city's musical life, and is part of its musical history. It deserves this status.

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David Anthony Witter
1 year ago

My mom lived ac ross the street for twenty years. I went to grade school a few blocks away. It is part of my history.

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Heidi Godwin
1 year ago

Wax Trax! put out literally the majority of the music I listened to as I was growing up. So far as I'm concerned, it's an alternative music Generation X landmark and deserves to be preserved

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Michael Nespo
1 year ago

Grew up buying records there. It was my escape.

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gina
1 year ago

In the early 80s this was our ground 0!

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Thor Eric Salo
1 year ago

The most important record store and label in Chicago history!

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Colleen Ritherford
1 year ago

Wax Trax changed my life!

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Kimiko Margarita Masuda
1 year ago

My father brought me here for the first time when I was about 14. I bought my first Cure album at Wax Trax, followed by some Nitzer Ebb, Front 242 and an Anne Clark 12” as I got older. I think this place was a refuge for young people like myself. Let’s protect it.

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Peter Ogbac
1 year ago

Save the old Wax Trax! building Chicago!

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Adam Wonak
1 year ago

Wax Trax has been a cultural beacon in my life. I have made so many friends through their music and identity.

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Sean Knight
1 year ago

The Wax Trax! building deserves recognition!

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Carter O'Brien
1 year ago

Lincoln Park has been stripped of so much cultural and architectural history, how about throwing us a bone and preserving the home of Wax Trax?

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m chang
1 year ago

Treks to WaxTrax was an integral part of growing up. It was access to music you couldn't find anywhere else. Recommendations to introduce to new soundscapes! This should be preserved, as an important part of Chicago history.