r/wickerpark

Across from Wicker Park (the park), there’s been a car sitting on Damen for, idk, a while. Maybe a few months. There’s been trash spilling out of it, and now the owner has been hassling folks on the street. Last night my wife and I were walking down the sidewalk and the guy told us to F off after we couldn’t offer any cash

Anybody know more about it, or any attempts to get city organizations involved? Don’t necessarily want to file 311/911 request

Shared this in the Chicago subreddit a few years ago, but figured this sub might find it even more interesting.

This was shot in April 2010 near my apartment at the time, just playing around with my new camera. Background music is by Nujabes (The Sign).

Might bring you guys back to a simpler time.

Enjoy!

My wife and I are in our late-40’s. In Wicker Park years, that makes us approximately 157, but we’d still like to hang out with people occasionally. Posting here to see if there’s another couple in a similar age bracket looking for the same thing.

 We’re pretty laid back people. Get along with most anyone. My wife is an introvert until she has her first drink. I can carry the conversation until that happens.

We like to play shuffleboard at Royal Palms. Go to standup at the Lincoln Lodge. Improv at Logan Square Improv. Find good food in WP & Bucktown or anywhere else the blue line takes us. Play board games. Drink prosecco (her) and IPAs (me). 

Topics we’re well-versed in: Having older kids (18 & 20), working in healthcare (her), working in education (me), being nomads (11 states & 2 other countries), living with a handsome, emotionally needy cat, Gregory Alan Isakov’s music, Premier League soccer (just me), and reading trendy psychological thrillers that usually have a mid-30’s single British lady who is also a little messy as the protagonist. 

For some additional info, we love these tv shows: Veep, Silicon Valley, Severance, Widows Bay, Arrested Development, I Think You Should Leave, Succession, and Love is Blind (everyone needs a guilty pleasure show). 

DM me if you’d be up for hanging out some time. Since our kids are old, we can even go out on school nights.

I was wondering if anyone else has witnessed these events/ has any further info on what happened.

On Wednesday, in the early afternoon before 12:10 my husband and I witnessed in the alley in between Walgreens (1369 N. Milwaukee) and the L, a small explosion. No one got hurt. It was not fireworks. It let off a decent sized mushroom cloud of smoke. People were in the Walgreens parking lot during the time. I saw a lot of police but zero reports online or on Citizen.

It happened AGAIN yesterday at 3:25 PM, but this time a block further down on Wolcott, very close to the first. My husband and I heard the boom. I was getting into my uber and my driver told me he heard a very loud boom as well and saw a mother and child scream and run towards Walgreens. My husband and driver witnessed the smoke yesterday as well.

Honestly shout out to this place for not only being able to make the best Halal breakfast sandwiches but also for how kind and attentive the workers are. Not only do they have so much variety in a main course meal (breakfast sandwiches, steak and cheese, beef bacon beef pepperoni) but what also wow’d me was how much dessert and Arab sweets they have. Taste of New York with a taste of the Middle East! If you haven’t come in I’d 100% suggest you go and check it out! What’s everyone’s favorite thing on the menu?

I was connected to WP CAP when I was first fostering my dog, who I then adopted. Dr Megan was a huge draw, she was so good with our dog and clearly loved what she did. A few years ago she left and we stuck around, and started noticing some changes that were mostly about trying to make more money, but not a decrease in care quality. We have been diligent about consolidating our appts to avoid additional technician fees, avoiding upcharged services, etc. I suspected they may have been aquired and indeed on their voicemail box I just heard them referred to as "an Ethos veterinary hospital." Their team still seem great, but now that we've adopted a second dog I want to see if anyone else in the neighborhood has other thoughts about them.

Hi I’m moving to wicker park in a couple weeks and I was wondering where the best bars/clubs around in the Wicker Park/West Town/Bucktown/Humboldt Park/Ukrainian Village areas are for young adults (I’m 22). I was also wondering some good weightlifting gyms in wicker park. Thanks!

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