Wicker Park (the Park)

Small triangular park at Damen and Schiller that gives the neighborhood its name, with a fieldhouse and weekend markets

The small triangular park that gives the neighbourhood its name, situated at the intersection of Damen, North, and Milwaukee Avenues — the commercial crossroads of one of Chicago's most dynamic neighbourhoods. The park itself is minor (a few benches, some grass, a fountain) but the surrounding intersection is the heart of a district that has been cycling through creative reinvention since the 1980s.

The six-corners of Damen/North/Milwaukee concentrates the neighbourhood's independent restaurants, boutiques, record stores, and bars. Quimby's Bookstore on North Avenue is the city's essential independent comic and zine shop. The Flat Iron Building at the intersection is a landmark building now filled with artist studios. Metro Blue Line, Damen station.

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