Leather Archives & Museum

The Leather Archives & Museum is a community archives, library, and museum located in the Rogers Park neighborhood of , Illinois. Founded by Chuck Renslow and Tony DeBlase in 1991, its mission is making “leather, kink, BDSM, and fetish accessible…
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: archives and museum of the Leather subculture
  • Also known as: “Leather Archives and Museum”
  • Address: 6418 North Greenview Avenue, Chicago, IL 60626

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St. Mary Eritrean Orthodox Church and Saint Gertrudes Roman Catholic Church.

Church
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is situated 1,200 feet southwest of Leather Archives & Museum.

Church
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St. Gertrude's Parish is a parish in the community area on the North Side of , Illinois. Established in 1912, the parish comprises a church, rectory and former convent clustered near the intersection of Granville and Glenwood avenues, and is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. is situated 1,600 feet southeast of Leather Archives & Museum.

Church
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is situated 1,400 feet northeast of Leather Archives & Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rogers Park and Edgewater.

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is the northern border of — the wild-eyed inheritor of uninhibited lakefront, swamps become beaches, and the beauty of Chicago bricks.

Suburb
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is one of the 77 community areas of in Illinois, United States, located on the North Side of Chicago. It is 6 miles north of .

Neighborhood
is a small commercial district within the community on 's far North Side.

Leather Archives & Museum

Latitude
41.99864° or 41° 59′ 55″ north
Longitude
-87.66834° or 87° 40′ 6″ west
Levels
1
Open location code
86HJX8XJ+FM
Open­Street­Map ID
way 209953009
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­commercial
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Wiki­data ID
Q1435136
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In Other Languages

From Dutch to Spanish—“Leather Archives & Museum” goes by many names.

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