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