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WAX TRAX! - 2449 Lincoln Ave. Landmark Status

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Greg Bates
1 year ago

Heck yeah!

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Jim
1 year ago

My brother Sinbad work there.

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Mary Gignilliat
1 year ago

Please. We don’t need another eyesore on Lincoln Avenue.

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Serg Cvetkovic
1 year ago

This place was OUR temple, OUR Garden of Eden!!

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Nicole Koretsky
1 year ago

Please protect this place: for many generations it was headquarters for the Chicago music scene.

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Ann Rakoczy
1 year ago

This store played a big part in my introduction to, and subsequent love for, Punk, Industrial and New Wave in the 1980’s. IMO it’s very deserving of landmark status.

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Ken Wissoker
1 year ago

This was music headquarters for a whole era -- the gateway to the NYC and London punk scene and then for the music that helped put Chicago on the map, simultaneously with house and early Chicago hip hop. The location and the building is an era classic.

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John Madrid
1 year ago

Chicago music history needs to be preserved.

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Vince Cervantes
1 year ago

Went there alot

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Elizabeth Cappo
1 year ago

A Chicago music landmark for sure.

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Frank Suerth
1 year ago

Northwest Chicago Historical Society www.nwchicagohistory.org

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Salome Chasnoff
1 year ago

Yes!

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Anonymous
1 year ago Featured

This space was pivotal in the Chicago music, art, fashion, and cultural scene of its time. I went there almost every week! It's deserves to be recognized and preserved so the history of punk, new wave, and experimental music in Chicago can be celebrated.

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Richard Gardner
1 year ago

Purchased tons on 45 rpms and "C·30 C·60 C·90 Go" Originally only released on cassette, it was the world's first-ever cassette single. This was the debut single by English new wave band Bow Wow Wow. It was written by Malcolm McLaren, Matthew Ashman, Leigh Gorman and Dave Barbarossa.

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Cally Raduenzel
1 year ago

Yes!!! Let’s do this!

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Kara DuQuette
1 year ago

I loved WAX TRAX! I went there a lot when I was a student at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Lots of fun, good people and good music!

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Pat Jacobsen
1 year ago

Keep this Chicago Landmark!

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Brian Lynch
1 year ago

By far the best music store anywhere. It would be an injustice to Chicago music history to lose such cultural icon.

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Glenn Russell
1 year ago

I went to Wax Trax! 3 times a week to get the newest records for the clubs I was DJing at. They had everything musically you could ever want.

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Beth Palmquist
1 year ago

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!