Warehouse Furniture at 2775 N. Milwaukee Avenue is engaging in some creative retailing. They will change/trade your gold for furniture, electronics or mattresses.
Bartering for business
November 3, 2009
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Community Book Exchange: Logan Square Branch
October 11, 2008
Walking by the southeast corner of Logan and Kedzie Boulevards, I was again reminded of one of the things I love about this neighborhood: the Community Book Exchange: Logan Square Branch (though I don’t know of any additional branches yet [Correction: there is also a Wicker Park Branch]).
If you haven’t seen it, it’s a Chicago Reader newspaper box (mis?)- appropriated and converted by Logan Square resident Ryan Duggan to a free book exchange serving readers in the community since 2006. Don’t worry, the Reader thought enough of it to feature a story on “The Littlest Library” shortly after the box surfaced in its current incarnation.
Have books you no longer want? Place them in the box. Looking for a good read? Go peruse the library shelves (all two of them). My recent perusal uncovered the classic Moby Dick by Herman Melville, Ray Bradbury’s science Read the rest of this entry »
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