Shops in Chicago

This art gallery and oddities boutique bewitches visitors with a trove of occult trinkets and eccentric antiques, work by an ever-changing roster of underground artists, and classes in tarot and other mystic arts.

The beloved home to all publications indie, erotic, and punky.

An unassuming store hides relics of its former life as the jazz club that hosted some of the best black performers of the 1920s and '30s.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

This morbid, delightful curiosity shop offers everything from animal bones to human teeth.

Former meatpacking facility turned vertical farm and sustainable business complex.

The world's only known button museum.

Internationally known record store and purveyor of "dusties."

A Bibliophile's Dream.

Where Cusack's record store from the film "High Fidelity" was located.

Theater has had many different incarnations but has survived the ravages of time.

A Chicago Movie Palace Lost to Time.

Once an ornate movie theater remade by Catholic Charities.

Landmark Chicago building narrowly avoided destruction.

Four glass boxes hover over 1,000 feet in the air to give visitors an unparalleled view of Chicago.

A beloved Chicago music venue offering cold beer and lots of “Friendly."