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WAX TRAX! - 2449 Lincoln Ave. Landmark Status

2,417 Comments

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Gregory Reynolds
4 years ago

We don't need a lot, we need what we have.

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jamie padgett
4 years ago

history!

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ryan mcconoughey
4 years ago

About time!

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Kay Krammer
4 years ago

Hope your cause is successful!

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Rich Baumgarten
4 years ago

Wax Trax introduced me to new music and culture that still shapes my life today. Save this landmark!

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Leslie A Dohmeier
4 years ago

Wax Trax Records was an integral part of my youth. I miss it still.

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Dan Petronijevic
4 years ago

It was my go to place for buying ever so influential Industrial Music and so much more! Such great memories!

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Anonymous
4 years ago

Innovative and still great to dance too. History was made in that building!

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Jen Tabor
4 years ago

A chicago must for music. This place is already historic. Let’s make it official!

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Erol Cims
4 years ago

Yes yes yes!

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Adam Fueston
4 years ago

Wax Trax records made a huge mark in the music industry and music industry and made Chicago known as “the scene “ for that type of music. I’d argue and many others would as well around the world that it’s just as important as the Chicago blues and jazz scenes and especially that store front and what it represents. It should be protected as an important historical landmark and part of the history of the Chicago musical legacy.

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Kevin Kubli
4 years ago

WAX TRAX changed my life.

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Anne Rizvi
4 years ago

LANDMARK IT

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Fran connor
4 years ago

Wax trax! was a crucial hub of American independent music; artists around the country benefited from have their records sold there, and as a source for discovering new music. The history of American indie music cannot be written without it.

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Benjamin Burford
4 years ago

Should be a world heritage site too!

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Amy Ferrell
4 years ago

Honor Chicago's music legacy;

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Ann-Elizabeth Shapera
4 years ago

WaxTrax was always more than just a store - during my teenage years it was a place to live who I truly was and meet like-minded rebels and music lovers sharing an alternative angle on life. WaxTrax forever! It’s a cornerstone of Chicago’s rich music heritage and deserves to be preserved as a landmark!

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John Hofer
4 years ago

I was in Wax Trax in 1990 shopping before goinhg to Park West to see Hothouse Flowers. I was buying Blue Nile - A Walk Across The rooftops and checking out next to me was Robert Plant. I was so shocked and overwhelmed I didn't say anything.

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DA Willis
4 years ago

Used to ditch high school to go there and buy records from the musicians that made them, the storefront is a significant part of Chicago history

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El Rollins
4 years ago

I miss it☹️