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WAX TRAX! - 2449 Lincoln Ave. Landmark Status

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David Opon
1 year ago

I support making the Wax Trax Records building at 2449 N. Lincoln Ave. an official historic Chicago landmark.

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Kjerstin Jacobs
1 year ago

Hell yeah!!

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Erin McDonnell
1 year ago

Preserve this wonderful institution!

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Amy Sellers
1 year ago

Very happy to sign….Wax Trax was a big, big part of my youth and I revere it still today. Would love to see this petition to through!

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Claudia LeSueur
1 year ago

Save this landmark!

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Anonymous
1 year ago

We can't lose this Chicago institution

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diane ponder
1 year ago

Its a piece of long playing culture

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Cathy Splete
1 year ago

Please make this a landmark!

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Sandy Nelson
1 year ago

A favorite place from my young adult, music exploring life!

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Carrie L Williams
1 year ago

This beautiful building needs to be saved-and it’s a treasure to boot-I still have lots of priceless vinyl from there.

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Kat Augustyn
1 year ago

I grew up on the south side of Chicago and whenever I went up north (which was often), I always tried to make a stop at Wax Trax. A one-of-a-kind store, it was a music lover’s paradise. Jim and Dannie were music pioneers, so let’s save an iconic piece of Chicago history!

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Jeraldine Ferrrone
1 year ago

!!!!!!!♥️

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Elizabeth A Deak
1 year ago

A historical landmark for the Chicago music scene.

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Sam Rath
1 year ago

A much loved era that should be saved.

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Erin Walsh
1 year ago

Many a days of my youth hanging out at Wax Trax.

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Robert Stephens
1 year ago

Wax Trax was and still is a massive influence. I founded The Geek Squad and the aesthetic directly comes from that era.

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Jeffrey Hayner
1 year ago

I am sending an email also but to sum up Historic Preservation is essential to economic success in neighborhoods; diversity of building types and architecture is analogous to biodiversity, essential to life! Wax Trax records is more than the building, it is the people and their art whose influences on popular culture cannot be overstated and should be celebrated; preservation of the building is where their story can start to be told.

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Shannon Jackson
1 year ago

Amazing things happened in this building. It should never be forgotten.

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Henry Wolff
1 year ago

a little late, but maybe it helps... bought a lot of records and CD's of WaxTrax! in the 1990s

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Andre Aguirre
1 year ago

Great memories