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Siemens light rail vehicle of the Utah Transit Authority at the Library station on the University Line.
The Commission on Chicago Landmarks approved a preliminary landmark recommendation for the former Wax Trax! at 2449 N. Lincoln Ave. Wax Trax! was a neighborhood store and apartment building constructed in 1906 with an unusually high degree of ornamentation. It is a rare, early example of glazed-brick cladding applied to a small-scale building. The building maintains an original Renaissance Revival cornice with a “broken pediment,” swags between curved brackets, a highly detailed central panel and four acroterion and an obelisk projecting above the cornice’s horizontal elements. Carved Bedford limestone elements on the building’s façade include prominent window hoods and sills, and a first-floor cornice with mascarons (human faces), which are rarely found on a store and flat building.
Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher opened the Wax Trax! records store in 1978. Their shared passion for music inspired the retail venture and their personal tastes and willingness to take risks shaped the store into an international source of eclectic and ground-breaking music. With bootlegs, imports and hard-to-find records, cassettes, CDs, and videos, Wax Trax! became an international retail destination. The store at 2449 North Lincoln helped to launch industrial-dance music, what became to be known as industrial music, in the United States. The company moved out in 1993 after it was sold. The building, for sale for $1.995 million, currently has medical offices; it is being marketed as a medical building.