As we continue to celebrate Chicago Market’s exciting funding news, we have another key milestone to share in the development of our store—the first on-site physical work to prepare the inside of our building for construction!

Our lease with the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) includes the basement portion of our location at Wilson and Broadway. The Co-op's store design plans call for transforming that lower level into storage space, restrooms, offices, and conference rooms (click here for pdf of the basement plan).

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We here at Chicago Market are partnering up with other area food co-ops to host a virtual screening of the documentary film The Co-op Wars!

All the candidates for the Board of Directors were asked a series of questions to help the Owners of Chicago Market make an informed decision. Here are their responses:

While the Uptown Farmers Market has been connecting amazing local farmers and producers with customers every Wednesday since May, we here at the Chicago Market Events Team were proud to add an artistic and literary vibe to our space this month!

As we continue working toward opening the full-service grocery store that will ultimately fill the building, we are happy to join with community partners and host events like Aug. 8th's Uptown Art Fair and Aug. 15th's Pop-Up Book Sale.

We at Chicago Market were proud to host Peterson Garden Project's Ninth Annual Edible Plant Sale this past weekend! In addition to the hundreds of people that came through our location at Wilson & Broadway to purchase organic seedlings, we were able to welcome an awesome 10 new Chicago Market Owners who signed up in support of building a locally-focused, sustainably-minded, and community-connected grocery store in our space!

Bridget Walsh of City Grange joined us yesterday for an online workshop all about urban gardens and landscaping. She shared what we need to know to assess our sites and how to select the perfect plants, incorporate native and pollinator plants, and more for our upcoming projects!

Kasey Eaves of Vivant Gardening Services joined us yesterday for the latest in her series of online workshops on growing and gardening. Our topic was the very seasonal one of seed starting indoors so we can get our gardens started confidently and keep seedlings strong and healthy until it's time to transplant.

Tamara Mannelly of Oh Lardy joined us yesterday for an online workshop all about fermented foods, including how they can benefit a healthy lifestyle and how to quickly and easily make them at home!

Kasey Eaves, of Vivant Gardening Services, joined us yesterday for an online workshop on growing and harvesting beginner-friendly superfoods known as microgreens. We learned how to supplement our winter diets with a continuous supply of fresh, super fast-growing, and highly nutritious greens from the comfort of our homes!

Bridget Williams, of Bridget's Northwoods Bakery, joined us this week for an online workshop all about decorating holiday cookies. We started with learning how to achieve perfect consistency with our icing, then moved on to flooding techniques and several other tips and tricks to decorate with confidence!