Not every retail stretch has to be trendy

It’s easy to dismiss the upper reaches of Broadway Street in Edgewater as merely a wide, noisy thoroughfare, but to do so overlooks the fact that this stretch of Broadway, scrappy as it appears, also is a handy destination for the sorts of convenience retail that you’d be hard-pressed to find on trendy strips such as Damen Avenue in Bucktown. That’s gotta count for something, right?

Edgewater mom and Yo Edgewater journal writer, Hayley Croom, was recently telling Yo’s truly about her favorite retailers along the 6000 and 6100 blocks of Broadway. There’s True Nature Health Foods, a community market that sells organic produce at 6034 N Broadway; a Hancock Fabrics outlet at 6101 N Broadway; and Kim’s & Clarendon Hardware, 6050 N Broadway, where Hayley says she’s picked up such useful odds and ends as a large suitcase and a tension rod for curtains.

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