Alley
Chicago, IL 60657-4402
Phone: (773) 525-3180
- Cross Street:
- Belmont Avenue
- Directions:
- El stop: Red Line to Belmont; bus line: 8 to Belmont, 22 to Belmont
- Hours:
- Mon-Thu 12pm-10pm, Fri, Sat 11am-12am, Sun 12pm-8pm
Editorial Review for Alley – by Liz Prior
The Scene
Expect to be greeted by hard rock or punk tunes and a strong fragrance of incense at this oversized store, where black is the color of choice. You'll find individual rooms for men's and women's apparel, a T-shirt gallery, and leather and shoe departments.
The Goods
Basic leather jackets hang alongside more creative biker and motorcross-racing styles. Cases of gothic pewter jewelry and paraphernalia--chalices, swords and figurines bearing skull-and-bones motif--are scattered throughout the store. Black leather belts with silver studs, biker wallets and assorted belt buckles attract Lincoln Park's anti-trendy residents. Shoes (some as cheap as $10) include gothic and motorcycle boots, wedge heels and funky sport shoes. Choose from club, gothic and punk clothing for guys and girls, and thousands of mainly black tees featuring names of punk bands and attitudey catchphrases.
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Insider Tips
The ExtrasThe Alley offers body piercing, along with an assortment of FDA-approved implant-grade body jewelry. Walk-ins welcome every day except Wednesday, which is by appointment only. Piercing are around $30 for above-the-waist and $45 for below.
User Reviews for Alley
02/04/2008 Posted by ElenaK123
The Alley - Chicago. Terrible service, they don't know what they have in their departments. Allways problems to exchange apparel for the different size. Impossible to figure out their working hours! They don't provide it on website, neither on the answering machine. Citysearch gives a wrong hours. It's a shame to see such a bad management in this location.
Cons: Service
10/31/2006 Posted by bbirkholz
on the edge or just wish you were this is the place from black t-shirts with (?) written on it or a bikers jacket and boots they have it all.
Pros: everything
Cons: if you like sales people to fall all over themselves getting to you this isn't for you
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