Long live Wax Trax. Chicago is home to so many musical genres. Blues, House, and Industrial. And Wax Trax was the record label and store to be at. Save this part of Chicago music history.
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George Hook
4 years ago
Definitely
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Anonymous
4 years ago
The WAX TRAX! music of my youth is still precious to me and countless others decades later. It is a unique and important artistic legacy with global reach. Please do WAX TRAX! the honor of recognizing their contributions, and declare their original storefront to be a historic Chicago landmark. Whenever I make it to Chicago, it will be the first place I visit.
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Israel Espinosa
4 years ago
This is where I discovered what music and identity was. Please make it a historic landmark.
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Anonymous
4 years ago
So many memories
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Nathan Cameron
4 years ago
Please save Waxtrax
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Richard Jonckheere
4 years ago
Wax Trax forever. Part of the history of Chicago and the evolution of music in the USA.
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Christopher Favorite
4 years ago
Landmark Status - love
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Justine Smiley
4 years ago
Must be done!
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Laura Theimer
4 years ago
Wax Trax is an institution and deserves recognition as such. In the early 90’s my art student friends and I, so into the alternative and underground music scenes came here regularly to shop, see and be seen (ok, we were somewhat posers, but our hearts were in it). Oh the many bootleg Joy Division and New Order cassettes I bought then and eventually wore out or broke. Wax Trax brought industrial dance music into our lives and the local clubs. It was such a powerful, sexy scene - a legacy in Chicago (and beyond) alternative art, music and culture.
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Michele Hoecker
4 years ago
WaxTrax! is a Chicago institution and was highly influential in shaping the culture of the music industry not only in Chicago, but also in the Midwest and, arguably, everywhere in the '80s and '90s.
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Grisel Y Acosta
4 years ago
This place informed my life as an artist and scholar of subculture and music.
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lisa boland
4 years ago
Wax Trax helped influence the music scene beyond Chicago. Featured in films, influenced movies from John Hughes. It is an institution!
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James Lis
4 years ago
The store is historic to me and I hope the city of Chicago can feel the same.
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John Poulos
4 years ago
Wax Trax cultural significance must be preserved and remembered.
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Todd Macaulay
4 years ago
As a former Chicago-area resident, this location was a seminal part of my youth, and helped to forge not only the culture of Chicago, but also changed the face of music nationally.
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Bryan Sumney
4 years ago
Living across the border in IN, this was ALWAYS a destination when we would go to Chicago.
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Josh Hall
4 years ago
Wax Trax! über alles
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Miro Saric
4 years ago
This storefront was the location of a Chicago institution and spearheaded a global influence in music. It should be recognized and preserved.
LANDMARK
Long live Wax Trax. Chicago is home to so many musical genres. Blues, House, and Industrial. And Wax Trax was the record label and store to be at. Save this part of Chicago music history.
Definitely
The WAX TRAX! music of my youth is still precious to me and countless others decades later. It is a unique and important artistic legacy with global reach. Please do WAX TRAX! the honor of recognizing their contributions, and declare their original storefront to be a historic Chicago landmark. Whenever I make it to Chicago, it will be the first place I visit.
This is where I discovered what music and identity was. Please make it a historic landmark.
So many memories
Please save Waxtrax
Wax Trax forever. Part of the history of Chicago and the evolution of music in the USA.
Landmark Status - love
Must be done!
Wax Trax is an institution and deserves recognition as such. In the early 90’s my art student friends and I, so into the alternative and underground music scenes came here regularly to shop, see and be seen (ok, we were somewhat posers, but our hearts were in it). Oh the many bootleg Joy Division and New Order cassettes I bought then and eventually wore out or broke. Wax Trax brought industrial dance music into our lives and the local clubs. It was such a powerful, sexy scene - a legacy in Chicago (and beyond) alternative art, music and culture.
WaxTrax! is a Chicago institution and was highly influential in shaping the culture of the music industry not only in Chicago, but also in the Midwest and, arguably, everywhere in the '80s and '90s.
This place informed my life as an artist and scholar of subculture and music.
Wax Trax helped influence the music scene beyond Chicago. Featured in films, influenced movies from John Hughes. It is an institution!
The store is historic to me and I hope the city of Chicago can feel the same.
Wax Trax cultural significance must be preserved and remembered.
As a former Chicago-area resident, this location was a seminal part of my youth, and helped to forge not only the culture of Chicago, but also changed the face of music nationally.
Living across the border in IN, this was ALWAYS a destination when we would go to Chicago.
Wax Trax! über alles
This storefront was the location of a Chicago institution and spearheaded a global influence in music. It should be recognized and preserved.