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Chicago farmers' markets include approximately 30 open-air markets across neighborhoods with farmers from Illinois and surrounding states including Indiana, Michigan and Wisconsin. Most of the markets are sponsored by the city and are held on one day of the week, with the exception of a few of the more popular ones, such as the Green City Market .
The Green City Market is a 501 (c)(3) not-for-profit organization that operates a farmers market in Chicago focusing on local and sustainable farming practices. Green City Market is Chicago's only year-round, sustainable market. Green City Market was started in 1998 by chef, cookbook author, and Chicago Tribune columnist Abby Mandel.
The Original Maxwell Street Market was an impromptu ghetto market established in the late 19th century by newly arrived Jewish residents from Eastern Europe. A Sunday-only affair, it was a precursor to the flea market scene in Chicago. The market was officially recognized by the city in 1912.
The Ann Arbor-based farm stop currently works with about 40 farmers, and together its three locations do about $6.8 million in annual business, with more than $4 million going directly to the farmers.
Hartville Hometown Meats and Seafood Farmers Markets. At the shop at 6817 Wales Ave. NW in Jackson Township from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays from June 8 through October. Jackson Township Farmers ...
It is the largest market of its kind in the Midwest. The Randolph Street Market Festival offers buyers hundreds of boutique spaces presented by dealers, purveyors and designers from a multi-state region. The Indie Designers market boutiques at the Randolph Street Market offer unique Chicago-designed fashion direct from the local designers.
South Water Market is a historic produce market in the Lower West Side neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois.Completed in 1925, the complex was designed as a structured replacement to Chicago's sprawling downtown produce markets on South Water Street; while these markets had existed since the mid-19th century, they had become a traffic and sanitation problem.
The market is located on the near southwest side of Chicago, just north of the South Branch of the Chicago River, between Chicago's Pilsen and McKinley Park neighborhoods. It consists of a single building on a 26-acre (110,000 m 2) site. There are two entrances: one from the west on Damen Avenue, and one from the north near Blue Island Avenue.