The brutal winter weather in Chicago continues and I have not been to a flea market since last fall. I was itching to get out and hunt for some "junk" so I headed out to Wolff's Indoor Flea Market in Palatine IL. They also run the largest outdoor Flea Market in the Chicago area during the summer months. That market operates out of the Allstate Arena parking lot and you can see the vendors fill the parking lot from I90 each Sunday over the summer.
Their indoor market is inside of what appears to be an old grocery or big box store. It is filled with a wide variety of vendors but overall it was not really the type of stuff I was looking for. It could have been that I got there a little later in the morning and it was picked over pretty good.
I did end up finding a booth that had a couple pickers with a great eye. Scott and Anna from Midcentury Misfits had a booth packed with great items. Virtually everything in their booth was stuff I would collect or pick myself. I ended buying some mid-century Dazor lights from them as well as a vintage Thermometer and some oil cans.
Their indoor market is inside of what appears to be an old grocery or big box store. It is filled with a wide variety of vendors but overall it was not really the type of stuff I was looking for. It could have been that I got there a little later in the morning and it was picked over pretty good.
I did end up finding a booth that had a couple pickers with a great eye. Scott and Anna from Midcentury Misfits had a booth packed with great items. Virtually everything in their booth was stuff I would collect or pick myself. I ended buying some mid-century Dazor lights from them as well as a vintage Thermometer and some oil cans.