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WAX TRAX! - 2449 Lincoln Ave. Landmark Status

2,417 Comments

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Jonna Bull
4 years ago

save this space!

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Jorge Cisneros
4 years ago

Loved going to the store and spent hours listening to new music.

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Mitchell Freund
4 years ago

Back in the '80's my high school friends and I made a summer pilgrimage on my birthday every year to pack up on all the new industrial. I love Wax Trax!

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Maria Hisle
4 years ago

Wax Trax is hallowed ground for music culture, the birthplace and trading grounds of sounds and ideas. Please protect this landmark important to many so other generations can enjoy the music and history.

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Kamberos Gayle
4 years ago

National Treasure!

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Shawna Franks
4 years ago

Such an important part of our lives pre- internet.

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Robert Kowalski
4 years ago

Wax Trax! was one of a few beacons in the wasteland of recorded music, where one could always find great music to listen to whether it be from walking into the shop, frequent mail ordering and/or promoted concerts. There are many iconic underground music establishments which have gone the way of the wrecking ball and regrettably sometimes, it's for needed reasons. There is no reason to let Wax Trax! fade into music history. It was important then, and the memory of it is just as important.

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Alfredo Oliva
4 years ago

Wax Trax must live!

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Andrzej
4 years ago

Viva Wax Trax!

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G j w
4 years ago

Waxtrax music output & contribution was as true treasure. It was to Chicago and the rest of the industrial scene of the 80s, that chess records was to the 50s

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Bruno Barr
4 years ago

Chicago love ❤️

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Brian Pinkerton
4 years ago

Wax Trax was a destination, a community, an artist collective that helped shape the 1980s. One of the prize jewels in the city’s contributions to music history.

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Cruz
4 years ago

If you remove a landmark from its original location, then it’s no longer a landmark.

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Chris Carson
4 years ago

Music lover who was re-born the day I walked into Wax Trax. Never listened to commercial music again.

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Adam Rash
4 years ago

This would be very meaningful to many Chicago residents.

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IS Freeland
4 years ago

Make Wax Trax Great Again

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Milton Scott
4 years ago

Legendary!

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Brian Burt
4 years ago

A CULTURAL LANDMARK! Don't let it go the way of CBGB's in New York!

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Alexa Cazier
4 years ago

Preserve Wax Trax!!!

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Todd Zachritz
4 years ago

Proud of my visits to the store...truly a mecca and unforgettable so many years ago. Still remember what I bought!