Thrift stores from Armitage to Addison

  • Brown Elephant, Elliott Consignment, Mount Sinai, Crossroads Trading Company, New Elephant Resale Shop, The Salvation Army, Nearly New Thrift Store, eDrop-Off Luxury Consignment are all thrift stores between Armitage and Addison. (Victoria Williamson | The DePaulia)

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  • Elliott Consignment is a family-owned store buys upscale clothing for resale. Featuring popular brands like Gucci, Chanel and Prada, customers can find designer items at half the price. It’s about 17 minutes from the Lincoln Park campus making it the farthest travel, but Elliott Consignment offers great deals.

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  • eDrop-Off Luxury Consignment specializes in buying and selling luxury and designer clothes for a bargain price. Located adjacent to Oz Park, the shop works closely with customers to not only receive resale designer clothes but to also buy gently used clothes.

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  • New Elephant Resale Shop recently relocated store offers classic thrift store items and a wide selection of vintage and antique items. The nonprofit reasale shop donates to local charities and offers students and professors a 10 percent discount with valid ID.

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  • The Brown Elephant is located near the Wellington Brown Line L stop, this store uses their funds to support the Howard Brown Health Center, which focuses on health services for the people in the LGBTQ+ community with little to no health insurance. The store is stocked full of books, music, clothes, furniture and knick-knacks.

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  • The Salvation Army is a few blocks past the DePaul Theater School, you can always find something at the Salvation Army. The store itself offers students a 10 percent discount with student ID and has a new sale happening every week.

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  • Crossroads Trading Company is located near the Diversey Brown Line L stop buys and sells clothes to customers. While not as high-end as E-Drop Off Luxury Consignment, the store still focuses on eco-friendly, up-to-date and gently-worn clothes.

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Zoey Barnes, Focus Editor
January 22, 2018

Digging through bins and scouting through racks of clothes can be an extremely arduous process to find one piece of clothing you like. But the benefits can outweigh the costs of thrift shopping. Living in a world through an eco-friendly lens, thrift shopping is one huge way to help the environment by not supporting corporations and reusing barely worn clothes.

Thrift shopping also has budget benefits for broke college students.

One could go into the Salvation Army Thrift Store, and leave with a bag filled for only $20. Sometimes, you can even make money thrift shopping when you sell your old clothes at consignment stores like Elliott Consignment or E-Drop Off Luxury Consignment. Many thrift stores, like Nearly New, Brown Elephant and Mount Sinai Resale, donate all proceeds to organizations around Chicago.

There are eight thrift shops that are all less than 1.5 miles from campus. From a short 10 minute walk to a short Brown Line ride to Wellington, one can sift through the thrift stores to find great deals of all kind.