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Reckless Records - Record Shop in Chicago

Wicker Park. The Chicago arm of a London shop, and it owns the building.

Shop
Reckless Records
Address
1379 North Milwaukee Avenue
Town
Chicago, United States
Established
1989
Formats
Vinyl, CDs, Cassette, DVDs, 7"
Crates
Rock, Indie, Punk, Soul, Jazz, Hip-hop, Electronic, Metal
In the shop
Buys collections, Step-free access, In-store gigs, Takes cash
Opening hours
10:00-19:00

Reckless began in London and crossed to Chicago at the end of the eighties, opening its first shop in Lakeview in 1989. The Wicker Park branch started in a tiny North Avenue storefront in 1994 and is now the flagship on Milwaukee Avenue, in a vintage building the business bought outright in 2014 - a rare thing for a record shop and the reason it has survived a neighbourhood that priced out most of its neighbours. Buys and sells records, CDs, DVDs, cassettes and video games, and has put on in-stores for decades