Coming Soon: Urban Outfitters, Wicker Park, Chicago

Coming Soon: Scoop NYC, Bucktown, Chicago

Western Ave. Mural, Bucktown, Chicago

Every time I walk out the door there’s something new in the neighborhood. Yesterday I walked to Bucktown to meet up with Justin and saw that Urban Outfitters is coming to Milwaukee Ave. It was only a matter of time before Wicker Park got a mainstream, national chain apparel store. American Apparel went in a while ago, but that still somehow has some indie cred. Let’s hear people bitch about Urban Outfitters..

Also, the imported goods store that was kind of like Cost Plus World Market is being replaced by Scoop NYC, a high-end clothing store.

On the way back was walking down Western and saw this crazy mural. It was about 10x as long as the last photograph, but I didn’t want to walk down the alley by these dudes who were hanging out so I couldn’t photograph it.