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Overview

These three neighborhoods in the larger area of West Town are trendy hot property. Hip record stores, thrift shops and cocktail lounges have shot up, though vintage Eastern European dive bars linger on many side-street corners. Wicker Park is the more commercial heart; it's flanked by Bucktown (a bit posher), Ukrainian Village and East Village (a bit shabbier), and smaller Noble Square. The restaurant and rock-club scene around here is unparalleled in the city.

Attractions

Must-see attractions

  • St Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral

    St Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral

    Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village

    Take a minute to wander past St Nicholas, which is the less traditional of the neighborhood’s main Ukrainian churches. Built in 1913, its 13 domes…

  • Polish Museum of America

    Polish Museum of America

    Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village

    If you don’t know Pulaski from a pierogi, this is the place to get the scoop on Polish culture. Founded in 1935, it’s one of the oldest ethnic museums in…

  • Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

    Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art

    Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village

    Founded in 1971, this collection acts as the westernmost anchor to a string of West Town art galleries. Two rooms display a permanent collection of…

  • Ukrainian National Museum

    Ukrainian National Museum

    Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village

    Across from one of the Ukrainian Village's larger churches, this small museum packs in a massive amount of information about the history, culture and…

  • Intuit: The Center for Intuitive & Outsider Art

    Intuit: The Center for Intuitive & Outsider Art

    Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village

    Behold this small museum's collection of naive and outsider art from Chicago artists, including rotating mixed-media exhibits and watercolors by famed…

  • Nelson Algren's House

    Nelson Algren's House

    Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village

    On the 3rd floor of this apartment building writer Nelson Algren created some of his greatest works about life in the once down-and-out neighborhood. A…

  • Wicker Park

    Wicker Park

    Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village

    The neighborhood's favorite green space is home to softball fields, a children's water playground, a winter ice rink, an active dog park, and indoor and…

  • Flat Iron Building

    Flat Iron Building

    Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village

    Galleries, studios and workshops fill the landmark Flat Iron Building, with contemporary painters, realist photographers, digital animators, pop-art…

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