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Shopping In Chicago

Shopping In Chicago

Chicago Shopping Guide       Chicago is one of the best shopping cities.  Shopping enthusiasts can spend a whole week exploring the different areas, with each shopping neighborhood offering something unique to the whole experience.    There are three areas that provide the best shopping; Downtown Chicago, north side Chicago, and the Chicago suburbs.  [...]

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Chicago’s Oak and Rush Street Shopping

Chicago’s Oak and Rush Street Shopping

     Chicago Shopping Hoods- Oak and Rush Street High-End Shopping Destination Oak Street, between Michigan Avenue and Rush Street Rush Street, between Oak Avenue and Delaware Place   Right around the corner of Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, on the north end, you will have the opportunity to stroll down one of Chicago’s other famous shopping [...]

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Chicago’s Downtown Jewelers’ Row

Chicago’s Downtown Jewelers’ Row

    Chicago Shopping Hoods- Jewelers’ Row Jewelry, Watches, Wholesalers, Craftsmen Wabash Avenue, between Washington Avenue and Monroe Avenue If you are looking to find jewelry and craftsman in Chicago, there is only one place you need to go:  Chicago’s Jewelers’ Row.  This Chicago shopping district was born over the years of 1872 to 1941 [...]

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Chicago’s Downtown State Street Shopping Guide- Back on the Shopping Map

Chicago’s Downtown State Street Shopping Guide- Back on the Shopping Map

             Chicago Shopping Hoods- Downtown’s State Street State Street Shopping Revival State Street:   from Randolph to Monroe Street.      Chicago downtown State Street is one area, I admit, I did not pay much attention to until about a week ago.  As long as I have lived in Chicago, the south side of the [...]

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Chicago’s Most Famous Shopping Street- The Magnificent Mile

Chicago’s Most Famous Shopping Street- The Magnificent Mile

      Chicago Shopping Hoods- Downtown’s Michigan Avenue The Mag Mile Michigan Avenue:  from Oak Street to Illinois Street.          The most popular downtown Chicago shopping street to the tourists and locals alike is Michigan Avenue. This street is located in the downtown Chicago neighborhood and runs north to south a few blocks [...]

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Skål! to Chicago’s Swedish Hood- Andersonville

Skål! to Chicago’s Swedish Hood- Andersonville

    Chicago Shopping Hoods- Andersonville North Side Galleries and Wine Clark Avenue Winnemac Ave to Edgewater Avenue       From the South of Edgewater through the North of Andersonville, you will find that this area is one of the trendier north side neighborhoods you will encounter.  Chicago was historically considered the second largest [...]

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Old Town Chicago- East Town, West Town Shopping

Old Town Chicago- East Town, West Town Shopping

  Chicago Shopping Hoods- East and West Old Town Stroll East, Shop West North Avenue and Wells Street (East) North Avenue and Halsted (West)       Old Town is a neighborhood in Chicago that I love dearly.  It provides me with the best of both worlds when it comes to shopping and dining.   [...]

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Chicago’s Lincoln Square

Chicago’s Lincoln Square

         Chicago Shopping Hoods- Lincoln Square German Bars, Bakeries, and shops Western, Lincoln, Lawrence intersections   Lincoln Square was once known as a German influenced neighborhood and a lot of that can still be seen in this cute town on the north-west side of Chicago.  If you are heading up Lincoln Avenue [...]

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Chicago’s “Little India”

Chicago’s “Little India”

    Chicago Shopping Hoods- West Ridge Middle Eastern Dining and Shopping Devon Avenue between California Avenue and Bell Avenue       A part of Chicago’s charm is the wide variety of multi-cultural neighborhoods.  One of the most interesting and popular cultural neighborhood is Chicago’s “Little India” where you can find high-quality authentic Indian [...]

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Shopping in Geneva, IL

Shopping in Geneva, IL

      Located less than an hour west of Chicago, Geneva has to be one of my favorite towns to shop.   You are not going to a strip mall in another town where you end up walking up and down the street to find the same shops you can find in a mall—Geneva is [...]

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