# Does anyone here remember the Red Egg shop in Chicago?

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**Created:** [January 30, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-remember-the-red-egg-shop-in-chicago/483642 "2009-01-30T00:08:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2009, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-remember-the-red-egg-shop-in-chicago/483642/1 "2009-01-30T00:08:16Z")

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It’s in one of Dan Clowes’ comics, I believe in the Eightball collection. He says one of the things he likes about Chicago is Red Egg Inc. a shop that only sells red eggs.  
It seems from reading[here](http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/110340) that it closed down some time ago.

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**Author:** ![An\_Gadai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/d6d6ee/32.png) [@An\_Gadai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Gadai)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2009, 11:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-remember-the-red-egg-shop-in-chicago/483642/2 "2009-02-10T11:19:02Z")

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Evidently not!

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**Post date:** [March 3, 2009, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-remember-the-red-egg-shop-in-chicago/483642/3 "2009-03-03T22:26:17Z")

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I remember seeing it but I never went in.

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**Author:** ![Madman2001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@Madman2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madman2001)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2009, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-here-remember-the-red-egg-shop-in-chicago/483642/4 "2009-07-27T13:10:25Z")

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This Red Egg place was on Irving, a few blocks east of Troy, on the south side of the street. It was a non-descript storefront and apparently the only thing they sold was red eggs. I had always assumed that they were dyed eggs, and it always puzzled me. Why a store dedicated to just red eggs?

They weren’t in business long - they were probably out of business by 1991 or so.

I have regretted not stopping in to the shop. Now I’ll never know!!

Craig