City Walk #30: Boystown

The next 3 sites on our walk were certainly the most amusing parts of it and definitely made it unlike any other City Walk we have been on yet. First was Batteries Not Included [3] which carries "playfully kinky party games" and then Gaymart Chicago [4] across the street. Probably the most scandalous of the 3 was next at Cupid's Treasures [5]. They have also since opened up their own leather goods store next door. Enough said.
The next stop on the Walk made me laugh. The card said that if we aren't "in the market for anything sexy, stop in at the inviting Caribou Coffee" [6]. For those of you not familiar with Caribou, it's a chain coffee shop and certainly not authentic to the neighborhood (like Nookie's Tree, an awesome breakfast place on this strip) so they could have also just told us to stop at Starbuck's or 7 Eleven too.
We ended this City Walk at The Gourmet Grape [7], a really cute little boutique wine shop just south of the Halsted/Addison intersection. We decided to poke around inside, but I had to exercise some self control since we have just returned from a side trip to Traverse City with a trunk full of Michigan wine.
Because of the ways that the maps lined up (this one ends at Addison where the other begins) we actually walked Boystown first and then continued on to Wrigleyville...

Next up for us was Wrigleyville, home to our very own Chicago Cubs and quite the opposite of neighboring Boystown. Like Boystown, it's a bit of a micro-neighborhood within the Lakeview neighborhood and it is named after Wrigley Field. We made sure to pick this City Walk for a day when the Cubs weren't in town as the neighborhood gets crazy when the fans take over Clark Street. Wrigleyville is full of divey bars, fast food joints, and sports gear and souvenir shops.
The walk continued down Clark Street all the way to Belmont, but these were the only two "official" stops on the trip. We've already been to a lot of the bars on this street so we stopped into a few more team stores in hopes of finding Alex his Colvin jersey (a no go), but we had one more unofficial stop to make. Alex and I love the show Man Vs. Food and a few weeks ago we saw an old rerun of an episode where they visited Chicago and went to Lucky's in Wrigleyville. Naturally, we had to stop in. Lucky's is known for stuffing every element of the meal into each sandwich-- including your fries and coleslaw. Needless to say, we were tired and full by the end of these Walks.
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