Wear the Love Letter

Twenty years ago, this was just a dad and his son walking Chicago's neighborhoods on weekends — no business plan, no content calendar, just an honest habit of loving this city out loud. That habit eventually became Chicago Specials. The feeling never changed.

This hat is about as close as we can get to handing you that feeling instead of just describing it. Right now, every one sold is one of the only things keeping this a two-person, walk-it-yourself operation instead of another scraped directory — real neighborhoods, real research, no filler. Read the whole story on our About page →