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WAX TRAX! - 2449 Lincoln Ave. Landmark Status

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Robert Sabetto
4 years ago

Yes!! This place was a big deal and this space is something many hold sacred.

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Anonymous
4 years ago

It was my favorite record store in Chicago back in the early 80s.

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Derek C Potts
4 years ago

Wax Trax was an oasis and destination - I drove in from Michigan when I when I was in high school. The store was a gateway to art and culture that I otherwise wouldn’t have had access to. Also, Lincoln Park has a history of architectural preservation and the arts. Wax Trax is a landmark, the end.

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Taylor McLaren
4 years ago

That's music history right there.

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Jeff Swiatek
4 years ago

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Brandon Rollefson
4 years ago

Definitely a huge part of music history!!

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Garret Scullin
4 years ago

Please commemorate this building.

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Dawn Spinda Reed
4 years ago

This IS a historic landmark. Let’s make it official!

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Steaphanie Blich
4 years ago

Historic

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Jamie
4 years ago

I like music

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Dede Pierry
4 years ago

The Lincoln Ave Wax Trax! store played a seminal role in the 70’s and 80’s Chicago Industrial music scene. It was a hub where the community was built & flourished. It deserves to have it’s landmark status recognized. I spent many hours & hard-earned dollars in this block of Lincoln Ave between WT! and the Red Lion.

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Don Browning
4 years ago

WaxTrax meant the world to me as a kid in Florida who looked to WaxTrax to help me navigate a world of music that was otherwise unavailable in my small town. The building is a part of the legend of WaxTrax, and to see it preserved would be a fitting honor to the fond memories a lot of us have for the store, the label, and Jim and Danny

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Jeff Coufal
4 years ago

Miss that place!

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Chris Siders
4 years ago

Save chicago’s industrial music history!!!

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Tom Anderson
4 years ago

Waxtrax!

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Michael Jobe
4 years ago

Roots are important!

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Greg Schultz
4 years ago

I shopped Wax Trax regularly in the 80’s and it helped expand my understanding of what music could be.

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Derek J Farmer
4 years ago

love this place!

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Tony Kuhar
4 years ago

Wax Trax was a very important step in music to so many people. Keep that building alive and remembered.

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Merritt Franco
4 years ago

This will always be thought of as the birthplace of my soul. Rock on.