Wicker Park, Bucktown & Ukrainian Village
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
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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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