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WAX TRAX! - 2449 Lincoln Ave. Landmark Status

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John Kleuver
4 years ago

An iconic location of a loved record store that was so important to the alternative music world!

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David Babbitt
4 years ago

As a suburban teenager Wax Trax! was a formative destination and reason to go to Chicago instead of Milwaukee. This place opened a world for me.

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Marcus Savina
4 years ago

Keep Chicago unique!

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Anonymous
4 years ago

Great music store. Lots of memories there!

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Roy Nees
4 years ago

Wax Trax changed my life. You might even say they saved my life.

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Joshua Howell
4 years ago

Wax Trax was extremely influential to the development of both electronic and rock music. The main reason I started vacationing to Chicago several years ago is specifically to visit Wax Trax, Metro, and other landmarks important to the music scene.

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John Watson
4 years ago

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Mark
4 years ago

Important part of Lincoln Park history!!

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Vincent Villescas
4 years ago

wax trax saved my life

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Tiffi De Friend
4 years ago

Hail WAXTRAX

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Joseph Peven
4 years ago

this is a cultural and musical institution and its history needs to be remembered and preserved

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Victor DeLeon
4 years ago

Let’s go we can do this !!!

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Angalia Bianca
4 years ago

This should be a historical landmark it was such a huge part of my young years and thousands of others ...this was an iconic record store and building. ONE OF A KIND. CHICAGO'S BEST

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Jim Sacco
4 years ago

Let’s do it!

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Patrick Sedlacek
4 years ago

This place has meant so much to me.

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Sean M Chase
4 years ago

Although I live in Denver where Wax Trax! began, their Chicago location has always been their heart and soul, and it's where their historical significance for their contribution to the music of the late 20th Century begins and continues. I cannot state the relevance of this location and its cultural and historical value enough. The building should be preserved as a landmark and celebrated by all of Chicago.

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Mellow Pundavela
4 years ago

we must protect wax trax at all costs

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Anonymous
4 years ago

This place was fundamental to who I became as a person!!

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Roma Cano
4 years ago

A monument to my youth and to who I’ve grown up to be! One of the few things worth preserving and few things I am proud of in Chicago.

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Anonymous
4 years ago

As a teen in the '80s, I often drove from Waukegan just to go to Wax Trax! No one else had the record selection they did. With a background in rock, rhythm and blues, punk, new wave, disco, and rap, I grew into an "Industrial" fan as the genre itself grew -- starting with Ministry and Divine. The music Wax Trax! produced and their store gave me and countless others something new and very necessary to call our own. Wax Trax! provided us with musical role models that inspired others to create music, dance, and express themselves -- not only in Chicago, but across the United States and the world. They created a genre. Changed music history. What else do you need?