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  1. What's Popping Up at ENJOY...  Join us for an Indie Pop-Up at ENJOY Andersonville. Sunday, June 12, from 12pm-6pm, we will have makers, bakers, and artists in our store from 12pm-6pm to sell their wares! If you're coming to #AndersonvilleMidsommerfest on Sunday, be sure to stop by and support these independent entrepreneurs! ENJOY Andersonville will be hosting monthly pop-ups supporting Independent Queer, BIPOC, and Female Identifying makers, bakers, and artists. If you're interested in popping up with us please...
  2. Oh, Hi, Spring. As the celebrations of Easter and Passover begin, we are ready to welcome a new season! Looking for some goodies for your Easter Baskets? We have candy, games, toys, bath bombs, cards and more. Shop online or in-store. Order online and choose our Free In-Store Pickup option. Most orders are available the next day. Order by midnight on Saturday, 4/16, for pickup on Easter Sunday, 4/17, at ENJOY Andersonville or ENJOY Lincoln Square. ENJOY Andersonville Spring 2022 Hours Mon-Fri 12pm-6pmSat 10...
  3. Andersonville Fika Fest 2023 Brings Some Hygge Get your FIKA on! Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood is bringing some Danish Hygge with Swedish Fika! Fika translates directly to "a coffee and cake break", but it is about so much more. Fika is a moment, a state of mind, or an action! The Andersonville Chamber of Commerce and our ENJOY Andersonville location will be celebrating Fika Fest (formerly known as Hygge Fest) from Friday, February 3, through Sunday, February 5. Fika translates directly to "a coffee and cake break&#...
  4. Happy Pi Day! We are celebrating all things STEM. Happy Pi Day! We are celebrating all things STEM. And to highlight Women’s History Month we are featuring the Women In Science 500 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle for $3.14 off all month long. Based on the New York Times best selling book, Women in Science, by author & illustrator Rachel Ignotofsky, the puzzle highlights 15 notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world. Included is Katherine Johnson, who not only helped...
  5. Spring Things Spring has returned like a breath of fresh air. Bring on the bunnies, flowers and mothers! We have toys and candy for Easter Basket stuffers, Passover Cards and Easter Cards, planters to help your indoor garden grow, floral themed gifts that bring color and beauty, gifts and cards that praise mothers and grandmothers on Mother's Day or find the perfect gift to send to help that lighten a friend's mood or celebrate special events.
  6. Give Dad a GurglePot The GurglePot was selected as one of 15 last-minute but cool gifts for your dad (who is impossible to shop for) by the Los Angeles Times Gift Guide. Mandy Patinkin’s delight over the gurgling glug of his new is our NEW FAVORITE THING. According to Julia Carmel, "there is a video of Mandy Patinkin, the dad of all dads... he’s pouring water in and out of his bright green GurglePot and looks absolutely giddy, snorting and cradling his pot like a small baby as it makes its signature bubbling ...
  7. Organize Your Home (Or Don't) Today is National Organize Your Home Day. With apologies to all the professional organizers out there (some of whom are our friends), we think the last thing one wants to do on a cold Friday in January is organize the home. Especially not when MERCURY IS RETROGRADE! Honestly, if you haven't organized your home in the past two years, is it going to happen today? But maybe you would like to complete a just one thing. We hear you. Here are some suggestions of what you could do instead of org...
  8. Snow Day Sale In Chicago, the groundhog is covered in 10" of snow. But we're pretty sure there's more winter to come... We were snowed-in yesterday, so we discounted 100's of items on sale for a limited time. Discounts on great gifts in every category. Art & Inspiration Kitchen Baby & Kids Jigsaw Puzzles Books & Journals Socks Cards & Notecards Toys & Games Home & Office Winter Accessories Jewelry Holiday Items Sale price...
  9. Gifts for your Galentine The Heart of Gold gift book is featured in Drew Barrymore's Best Valentine's Day Gift Picks for Your Girlfriends in People.
  10. Ready for Holiday Thymes Thymes Frasier Fir and Illume Balsam and Cedar are the Scents of the Season. Shop for candles, diffusers and room sprays, soaps, hand sanitizers, lotion and home cleaning products that will make your home smell like a winter wonderland. Available online from Urban General Store and ready to ship anywhere in the US for $8.95, or you can get them at both ENJOY Chicago locations. Thymes Fraiser Fir scent is mountain fresh and glowing with the aromatic snap of crisp Siberian Fir needles, hearte...
  11. Small Business Saturday Thank you for shopping with us on Small Business Saturday. We excited to be featured on ABC 7 with Evelyn Holmes. And NBC 5 with Jen DeSalvo. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Andersonville Chamber (@avillechamber)
  12. What Would Oprah Buy? Oprah's released her list of favorites things and... WE AGREE! This year's list of 104 gifts celebrates small businesses (family-run, local makers, BIPOC- and woman-founded, and more!) We are excited about this focus. Her picks include some of our favorites like Corkcicle, Galison, Musee, Rebel Girls, Compendium, and Top It Off. We've included some other, similar items that our some of our favorite things. So no matter who you’re shopping for—friends, spouse, favorite teacher, co-...
  13. Top 25 Gifts for 2021 Undoubtedly, you've heard the news... Supply chain issues. Shortages. Delays. Something called Legacy Nodes?! We're one step ahead of the Grinch who's trying to steal Christmas. We stocked up early on 1000's of gifts—with more being added daily. So if you're ready to get your holiday shopping done, we are ready to help! We've curated a collection of our TOP 25 GIFTS—these are our best sellers and we've got them in stock and ready to ship! Because you are a smart, s...
  14. What's In Store - Halloween Edition We've got the TREATS and the TRICKS for Halloween! Whether you are into the most EXTREME SOUR trendy TikTok Candy or prefer more subtle retro sweets, we've got the TREATS for Halloween! Looking for some non-candy Halloween TRICKS? We have the hottest POP FIDGET toys, finger puppets, socks, puzzles and more! HALLOWEEN IN ANDERSONVILLE Trick-or-Treating will be available at ENJOY Andersonville and various businesses throughout the district from 11AM-4PM on Saturday, October 30. Or j...
  15. Happy Socktoberfest Cheers to SOCKTOBERFEST! Buy 5 pairs of regularly priced socks (including new SNOOZIES!, get the 6th pair for 50% off. Discount automatically applied at checkout—just add 6 pairs to your cart. Offer valid online only. May not be used with other offers. Discount applied to the lowest priced item. SHOP NOW >>
  16. Happy Cyber Monday It’s the Monday after a holiday weekend.You’re busy... have a long to-do list... received 5,762 other promotional emails... so, we’ll keep it brief—We've curated our Top 25 Gifts, the best of Holiday Decor, our Holiday Gift Guide, boxed and single Christmas and Hanukkah cards plus 100's of Stocking Stuffers under $25. Let us know what else we can do to help get your holiday shopping done! We're all ears.
  17. Some GOOD Viral News We are thrilled that some of our best-selling products have been featured on Instagram, TikTok, Seventeen, and The New York Times Wirecutter. The GurglePot was featured in the list of 24 of the Best Housewarming Gifts by Gregory Han in The New York Times Wirecutter. Now back in stock with NEW colors—OMBRE GRAY, PINK, BROWN and more! Available in single serve SMALL 12oz. size and LARGE 42oz. pitcher. The Sugarboo XO Prince and Dolly Quote Mugs were shared by @thefoxfamilyden's I...
  18. What's In Store - Apple Fest Edition Have you fallen into your autumn groove yet? We are SO ready for sweater weather. Thanks to all who stopped by ENJOY Andersonville during last week's Andersonville Homecoming. We are ready to officially kick off fall with the return of Apple Fest this weekend in Chicago in the Lincoln Square neighborhood. ENJOY Lincoln Square will be open extended hours—Saturday, October 2, 10AM-7PM and Sunday, October 3, 10AM-6PM—so get your gourds at the Fest then more goodies at ENJOY! We will be feat...
  19. EXTRA! EXTRA! We Were Featured in The New York Times The GurglePot was featured in the list of 33 of The Best Housewarming Gifts in The New York Times. According to Gregory Han of Wirecutter, the GurglePot—a "piscine pitcher"—is the perfect new home gift for the hard-to-please friend—or the proverbial one who has everything. GurglePots are made of durable stoneware and are available in a wide array of colors. The 42 ounce vase makes a soft and pleasant gurgling or glugging sound as it pours—not unlike a babbling creek—that Wirecutter n...
  20. ENJOY Live on No Wristbands Required We are excited to be featured on "No Wristbands Required", a new talk show that will be live streamed on Twitch’s Chicago4real channel. The Lincoln Square episode will air live during Apple Fest on Saturday, October 2, at 5PM. Host Justin Kaufmann will be on-line outside (weather permitting) at Giddings Plaza. This shows features interesting, innovative interviews with business and community leaders to highlight Chicago’s neighborhoods. Tune in 10/02/21 at 5PM at www.twitch.tv/chicago...
  21. Sugar Realm Bakery Back To School Pop-Up Join Sugar Realm Bakery at ENJOY Lincoln Square this weekend (Saturday, 8/28 & Sunday, 8/29) for back to school cookies, including their DIY lunch note cookies that come with an edible marker. And check out our complete selection of notebooks, masks, pens, and more to brighten your school day! ENJOY Lincoln Square's Back To School Shopping Hours: Monday 11AM–5PMTuesday 11AM–5PMWednesday 11AM–5PMThursday 10AM–7PMFriday 10AM–7PMSaturday 10AM–7PM Sunday 11AM–4PM Vie...
  22. Take Our Survey & Enter to Win a $25 Gift Card We are celebrating our 16th birthday this month! We opened our ENJOY, AN URBAN GENERAL STORE location in Lincoln Square in Chicago in 2005. Thank you for making the past 16 years so sweet. Take our customer survey and give us input on how the next 16 should look! We hope you’ve gotten to know us a bit by now... but we’d like to know more about you. We want to be able to give you a good shopping experience. And figured the best way to find out what you want is to just ask! Complete our sur...
  23. What's On Your Summer Reading List? Are you a book lover? If so, we crack open a book to you! There's still a little bit of summer left to read a good book. Shop our new non-fiction books, guided journals, picture & board books for kids, and notebooks. Plus, limited quantities of books on sale. SHOP NOW >>
  24. Back To School & Back To Work Backpacks, bags, totes, lunch boxes, slings and fanny packs to lighten your load and help you Get Back To It. The Write Stuff is a collection of pens, pencils, markers, erasers, notebooks, journals, planners and more Back To School goodies! Activities, games, toys and crafts to help make kids' days at home and at school interactive, educational and FUN! Desk accessories and WFH gags that put the FUN in OFFICE FUNctional (and, sometimes, NSFW disFUNctional).
  25. Are Dad Jokes > Dad Bod? What’s better than a dad bod? A father figure. <groan> Is your father figure funny-ish? Celebrate dad with gifts that are clever and a little punny. Check out our best selling Father's Day gifts and cards. For a limited time, buy any greeting card (Father's Day or others) and get our special Father's Day Gift Packaging for all items in your order for FREE. Use code: CARD+GIFTWRAP at checkout. Offer valid online only—not valid in stores (or place an online order for in-store ...
  26. Happy Sweet 16 ENJOY Our retail store, ENJOY, AN URBAN GENERAL STORE, opened 16 years ago in Chicago's Lincoln Square. We are so grateful for the support of our friends, family, neighbors and customers over the past sixteen years. We couldn't have done it without you. We are so grateful. How it started... How it's going... Thank you for making the past 16 years so sweet. Take our customer survey and give us input on how the next 16 should look!
  27. Fourth of July Hours 2021 Both ENJOY Chicago locations will be open for the Fourth of July Holiday (Sunday, 7/04 and Monday, 7/05). ENJOY Andersonville will be open 12 pm — 4 pm, Sunday 7/04, and Monday, 7/05. ENJOY Lincoln Square will be open 12 pm — 4 pm, Sunday 7/04, and Monday, 7/05. Our Urbangeneralstore.com website offices will be closed. Orders placed over the weekend will ship out Tuesday, July 6, 2021. Online In-Store Pickup orders placed before midnight, Sunday, July 4, will be available for pickup on Mond...
  28. The Year That Was 2020 - Part Three: Are FingerHands Essential?🤚 View this post on Instagram A post shared by Urban General Store (@urbangeneralstore) One could argue that people NEED a set of FingerHands, but apparently Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot disagrees. So, beginning in March 2020, as non-essential retail, we were able to have an employee in our stores but not allowed to let the public inside. Gratefully, a majority of our customers were making the best of it by shopping online and scheduling curbside pickups. ...
  29. Andersonville In Bloom THURSDAY, APRIL 22 – SUNDAY, APRIL 25 in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood. In honor of Earth Day weekend, Andersonville in Bloom returns after a year hiatus to celebrate all things spring in the neighborhood! Participating businesses will offer “blooming” promotions and product highlights for the event, and the Andersonville Chamber of Commerce will be selling Andersonville in Bloom Mystery Packages curated from local businesses (including botanical & essential oil shower bombs from E...
  30. Free Gift Wrapping For Mother's Day at ENJOY Lincoln Square We will be set up outside our ENJOY Lincoln Square location (weather permitting) at 4723 N. Lincoln Ave. on Saturday, May 8, 2021, offering complimentary gift packaging with any ENJOY purchase. There is no charge for this service but instead we will be accepting donations for Simpson Academy For Young Women. Come get your Mother's Day gift shopping wrapped-up and join us in supporting the Simpson Academy and their mission to educate and empower young mothers and prepare them for success i...
  31. The Andersonville InsideWalk Sale Visit us in Chicago for Deals and Steals! The Andersonville Chamber of Commerce's annual InsideWalk Sale is back this weekend, March 26-28. Join us and our retail neighbors as we make way for spring by clearing out winter merchandise. We will be featuring deals and steals on overstock, dinged and scratched and less than perfect but still functional items for $10 and less. Shop in person, safely, for great discounts or shop online for exclusive sales. Our ENJOY Andersonville location at 53...
  32. Wrap-Up Mother’s Day Gift Shopping Wrap-Up Mother’s Day Gift Shopping with SPECIALTY GIFT WRAPPING. We have gifts for all types of mothers—SWEET MOMS, SASSY MOMS, NEW MOMS, WORKING MOMS and GRANDMOTHERS. Don’t forget the Mother's Day Card!
  33. The Year That Was 2020 - Part Two: The New Normal 🧼😷 Following Illinois's mandatory stay-at-home order in March 2020, we temporarily closed our two retail locations—ENJOY Andersonville and ENJOY Lincoln Square. Like most Americans (and EARTHLINGS), we were scared and uncertain. People were getting sick, we were worried about our families, our jobs, toilet paper, and... HAND SANITIZERS and MASKS Suddenly we noticed that all of our novelty (yet still effective at killing 99.99% of germs on contact) hand sanitizers were selling out. The stress...
  34. Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend Hours It's the most wonderful weekend of the year! THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY WEEKEND HOURS FOR BOTH ENJOY, AN URBAN GENERAL STORE LOCATIONS 2023 Thanksgiving ThursdayCLOSEDBlack Friday / Plaid Friday10 AM - 7 PMSmall Business Saturday9 AM - 9 PMSunday10 AM - 6 PM ENJOY Andersonville 5307 N Clark St (between W. Berwyn Ave and W. Summerdale Ave), Chicago, IL 60640 ENJOY Lincoln Square 4723 N Lincoln Ave (between Lawrence Ave & Leland Ave), Chicago, IL 60625 Phone: 773-334-8626
  35. A Little Spring Cleaning Isn't it a good time for a little spring cleaning? A strange year caused all of our usual buying and merchandising and restocking to be, well, a little bit weird. The good news is that we are ready to have a SALE. Shop now for great deals on winter accessories, masks, jigsaw puzzles, home and office gifts and more!
  36. Small Business Saturday in Lincoln Square in Chicago Thanks to Nate Rogers of Fox 32 Chicago for stopping ENJOY Lincoln Square on #SmallBusinessSaturday. Customers DO love our MUGS, JIGSAW PUZZLES and GREETING CARDS.