David Holtz: This place is amazing. All sorts of cool vintage stuff. Budget 1-2 hours to wander around and get lost.
Ben Wildeboer: This place is amazing. It's better than a museum- and now you'll know where to go when you need those weird decorations for that next project you're doing.
Of a Kind: Chicago-based jewelry designer, Laura Lombardi, claims Architectural Artifacts to be one of seven must-go-to spots in Chicago! Check out exclusive designs by this emerging jeweler on ofakind.com! Read more.
Time Out Chicago: The market specializes in all things mission, Art Deco, midcentury and mod. Furniture and art is the main focus upstairs, while downstairs you’ll find a variety of lighting, jewelry and more. -LB Read more.
Explore Chicago: With 75 dealers and over 25,000 square feet of showroom space, this ‘vintage department store’ has every antique imaginable, with an emphasis on mid-century modern furniture & art deco pieces.
Time Out Chicago: The market specializes in all things mission, Art Deco, midcentury and mod. Furniture and art is the main focus upstairs, while downstairs you’ll find a variety of lighting, jewelry and more.
3. Salvage One
8.4
1840 W Hubbard St (btwn N Wolcott Ave & N Wood St), Chicago, IL
Antique Store · West Town · 17 tips and reviews
s.: although this place has some great stuff, their prices are out of this world.. (both retail & event pricing) If they were smart, they would practice the art of charging what they must & not what can!
dave d: A fun place when you're with friends. Possibly less enjoyable with strangers or enemies, but that is an assumption and has yet to be confirmed.
Quickie Tainow: A truly unique venue for a wedding!
5. Edgewater Antique Mall
7.8
6314 N Broadway St (at W Rosemont Ave), Chicago, IL
Antique Store · Edgewater · 9 tips and reviews
Ray Olmeda: Great antique finds at this store! Must check it out!
Time Out Chicago: While you’ll find a smaller selection of furniture, the mall does offer “newer” items from the more recent decades of the 20th century. Another perk: The prices are slightly lower than BAM’s
Explore Chicago: Every era in the 20th century is represented by interesting, hand-selected antiques & vintage pieces here, in an ever-changing selection of furniture, accessories, adornments, decorative arts & more.
6. Woolly Mammoth
7.7
1513 W Foster Ave (btwn Clark & Ashland), Chicago, IL
Antique Store · Andersonville · 7 tips and reviews
Kate Stranberg: impossible not to like the randomness of this small shop - old doctor's kits, mummy skeleton, and loads of random fun knick knacks! definitely recommend!
Amy Robertson: For all your weird taxidermy needs
Megan Harris: I've never seen so many dead animals in one place. And I'm from the South.
7. P.O.S.H. Chicago
7.8
613 N State St, Chicago, IL
Antique Store · Near North Side · 4 tips and reviews
Nicole Zhu: Great vintage shop with cute bistro wine glasses and other plates/glasses for good prices. They also have a cool collection of vintage postcards and posters.
Explore Chicago: The rustic, cozy interior of P.O.S.H. is filled an eclectic assortment of unique housewares, from antique and vintage tableware and glassware to hotel silver and restaurant china and dinnerware.
Lucky Magazine: Hotel silver, historic Queen-emblazoned ashtrays from the U.K. and a smattering of ephemera add up to P.O.S.H.’s enduringly great Parisian-flea-market feel.
8. Brimfield
7.4
5219 N Clark St (btwn Foster & Farragut), Chicago, IL
Antique Store · Andersonville · 16 tips and reviews
Amy Robertson: Absolutely delightful mix of vintage and modified goods. So many things I wish I could take home
Time Out Chicago: While in Andersonville, Julie Fernstrom discovered a vacant neighbor space where she’s now opened Brimfield. Named after her favorite plaid, the store is “Ralph Lauren meets a Paris flea market." -KA Read more.
Chad Ingram: Julie, the owner of this venue is to not be trusted. We will never shop here again.
9. Lincoln Antique Mall
7.4
3115 W Irving Park Rd (at N Troy St), Chicago, IL
Antique Store · Irving Park · 3 tips and reviews
Heather Schmidt: Lots of vintage jewelry at great prices
Colleen: Best antique store on the North side of Chicago.
S H: A true mall from retro accesories to high-end jewelries, books, art, novelty items, pottery, collectibles, furniture and more!!