Wicker Park

This Saturday my roommates and I went to Wicker Park. It’s two stops south of logan square on the blue line, off Damen (I feel so knowledgable of the city already! Not to sound like a dork). There was a craft fair going on there, but this wasn’t like the kind of craft fairs I’m used to! This was an entire mile of a street covered with two sides of white tents, there must have been hundreds. And the crafts were different from what I’m used to as well. This wasn’t something that these people do as a hobby, this was their life. The art was unbelievable. The jewelry was to die for. Unfortunately I didn’t have the $80 I needed to buy this beautifully dainty ring that looked like a wild rose with a natural pearl set in the center.

Everything was so eco-friendly, everything was recycled, everything was peace and love and I almost felt like I was back at CC for a moment!

After three hours of looking around, we decided to go find this trendy little ice cream spot our other roommates had told us about. It’s called iCream and was just down the street from the Damen station. This was the best street I’ve ever seen! Steve Madden, Urban Outfitters, American Apparel, Vintage stores, Aldo, and then iCream. ICream is an ice cream shop where they make the ice cream right there. You tell them the flavors the add ins and then they mix it up in either milk or yogurt, and then put it into a mixer and put nitrogen (I could be wrong I’m not a science person) in it to make it really cold really fast. It was the best ice cream I have ever had! I had pomegranate lemon ice cream with peaces and strawberries. I cannot wait to go back.

I’ve decided that if I ever return to Chicago for a more permanent amount of time (which I totally plan on living here one day, by the way!) Wicker Park is definitely the place I want to live! (now I wonder how many more times I’m going to say this about how many other neighborhoods!?!)

Well until next time,

-elle

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