Separating
itself from the retail world that adorns the Magnificent Mile and
State Street in the city, Christkindlmarket Chicago offers visitors a unique
holiday shopping experience. The wide range of offerings includes
eclectic ornaments that are hand-blown and painted and cannot be found anywhere
else besides the market. The classic German products like nutcrackers, cuckoo clocks, beer steins, and Hummel
figurines are always popular items with visitors. The vendors
offer thousands of ornaments in all shapes and sizes, toys for all ages, jewelry, clothes, home decor, and wooden handicrafts. Several vendors
demonstrate how their handicrafts are made at the market . A glass vendor
etches directly at the market to customize beer and wine glasses as well
as vases and other trinkets that he sells. A wood carver demonstrates his
unique carving technique and visitors can purchase his creations directly
from the workbench.
However,
the most popular bits and pieces offered by the vendors that have visitors
lining up are the large assortment of savory and sweet foods, drinks and
candied treats. Visitors can smell some of the tempting aromas from the sausages, sauerkraut, potato pancakes, waffles and many other delicacies
throughout the market. The Glühwein, traditional
German holiday market hot spiced wine, has been perfected to please the
palate and warm the heart. This beverage is so special that it comes in
a souvenir cup shaped like a boot and decorated with the markets signature logo and the year. German
beer that will quench any thirst also flows from the drink vendors’
tap. The assortment of roasted nuts, sweet cakes and
pastries, or German chocolates and candied goodies are sure to leave all sweet-toothed visitors satisfied.
The vendor list for 2008 is in progress. Above please find a sample of 2007.
If you are interested in becoming a vendor please contact us here.
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Vendor |
From |
Products |
Alpine Heritage |
Oberösterreich - Austria |
Austrian imports with nativity scenes in boxes, Christmas, winter and summer ornaments and Swarovski-Strass crystal gift items. |
Art Business Center Inc. |
Kharkiv - Ukraine |
Russian and Ukrainian Gifts – wooden gifts including: nesting dolls, hand painted Santa’s, lacquer boxes, pins, hand carved & hand painted holiday ornaments etc. and paper-mâché items. |
Bavarian Workshop |
München - Germany |
Authentic German ornaments for decorating the tree and home. |
Zwiesel - Germany |
Ornaments, animals, holiday decorations made of glass. Glass etching demonstration and custom etching directly in the booth. |
|
From the Holy Land |
Hand carved-wooden nativity scenes, praying hands and religious symbols and gift items. |
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Berlin - Germany |
CD's and MC's of German Holiday music and stories and gift items. |
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Casita Azul Folk Art |
Mexico |
Folk art, jewelry,world music cd's, season art such as ornaments, mittens from Mexico, Latin America and the U.S. |
Altenhain - Germany |
Carvings of animals, sculptures, toys and games made of wood. Home décor and accessories. |
|
Poland |
Toys, hand painted ornaments, figurine candles, Polish pottery, wooden sleds and many more gift items. |
|
Frank's Bavarian Giftshop |
Bavaria - Germany |
Chocolate covered fruits, marzipan, chocolate covered cookies and many more sweet treats. Beer steins, figurines and wooden ornaments. |
Black Forest - Germany |
Cuckoo clocks, wooden crafts with custom engraving and woodcarving demonstrations. |
|
Niederwerrn - Germany |
Bavarian folk style jewelry and scarves with „Edelweiß “ theme, men’s „Sepplhüte“ hats, suspenders, Christmas dwarfs and „Lebkuchenhäuser“ gingerbread houses, Snowball and other ornaments, music boxes, kitchen herbs and spices, baking mixes, fruit candies and gingerbread of all sorts. |
|
Lauscha - Germany |
A large walk-in booth with Holiday ornaments of every shape, size, make and model. |
|
Hoffmann Company |
Dresden - Germany |
Wooden Christmas decorations from genuine Erzgebirge (including: incense burning figurines, pyramids, cuckoo clocks etc.) |
Kathmandu - Nepal |
Tea, silver jewelry, silk and pashmina scarves, mountain goat wool jackets and sweaters and many more gift ideas from Nepal. |
|
Imexta Gifts and Crafts |
Strullendorf - Germany |
Clay and ceramic pottery items including coffee & tea sets, plates and pitchers, decorative German houses that light up to create sceneries, Holiday and straw ornaments. |
Stillwater, MN - USA |
One of the most famous Christmas stores in the world, from Nuremberg Germany, has a permanent place here in Chicago at the market. Its walk-in booth holds Holiday ornaments, pyramids, crèche and many, many more gifts and specialty items. |
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Kerzen Studio
Poennighaus |
Bad Oeynhausen - Germany |
Candles, ceramic houses in the form of popular German buildings & churches etc., paper stars, home décor, and tea-light gift items. |
Lightning Glass (Original German Christmas Ornaments) |
Ernstthal - Germany |
Original German handmade & hand-painted glass Holiday ornaments and bells and other gift items made from glass. |
Milwaukee, WI - USA |
Hummel figurines and beer steins. |
|
Marrakech Express |
Marrakech - Morocco |
Lamps, lanterns, selenite crystals, wood crafted items, ceramics and fossil stoneware from Morocco. |
Hammerbrücke - Germany |
Plauener lace products. |
|
Otavalo Inka & Kikimba |
Ecuador |
Leather purses, back packs and bamboo jewelry. Handmade Alpaca wool sweaters, ponchos, scarves, gloves and hats. |
Pallay Crafts |
Peru |
Peruvian jewelry, charms, rings and many more holiday gift items. |
Rossdorf - Germany |
Pewter Holiday ornaments, pendants, tin figurines, pictures that are handmade and painted. |
|
Plauen - Germany |
Large Assortment of original Plauener lace and embroidery products & décor. |
|
Scarf King |
Shorewood , WI - USA |
Cashmere, pashmina and silk scarves in a variety of colors and patterns. |
Sweet Castle |
Neidenbach - Germany |
Assortment of roasted nuts, ginger bread, and German cookies. A huge assortment of German chocolates & candy, Stollen (Traditional German Holiday cake), popcorn and cotton candy. |
Nordheim - Germany |
Assorted roasted nuts, marzipan candy, gingerbread, and chocolate specialties. |
|
Toy Wonderland |
Dresden - Germany |
Wooden toys and a large assortment of games for big and small. |
St. Petersburg - Russia |
Famous walking toys. |
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Vendor |
From |
Products |
Brutzelbude Kahla |
Schönwald - Germany |
Schnitzel, Chicken sandwiches, German burgers, potato pancakes, goulash soup, French fries, hot dogs, pizza and hot & cold drinks. |
Chicago, IL - USA |
Famous “Stollen”, traditional German Holiday cake, hot chocolate and other delightful baked goods to enjoy at the market or to take home. |
|
German Grill Company LLC |
Plauen - Germany |
Sausages including: Bratwurst, Nürnberger, spicy kilometer and new this year: Currywurst. Also Soups, Leberkäse, sauerkraut, fried potatoes, potato pancakes, smoked pork loin, grilled chicken breast, sweet cheese fritters, fresh baked waffles and snow balls, hot & cold drinks. |
Honey Brook, PA - USA |
Helmut's famous assortment of strudels: apple, cherry, cheese, broccoli/spinach, lemon pepper chicken puffs, puff dogs, French bread pizza, pretzels and hot drinks. |
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Chicago, IL - USA |
Imported Bischoff Premium Pilsner and Bischoff Christmas Doppelbock. Also Original Sternthaler Nürnberger Christkindles Glühwein (traditional hot spiced wine). |
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Milwaukee, WI - USA |
The famous Milwaukee restaurant is serving up delights including their famous Reuben rolls, vegetarian lentil soup, salad, beef Rouladen, Spätzle noodles, Bienenstich and Black Forest cake. Gift items and baskets will be available for purchase. |
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Pretzel House |
Bad Oeynhausen - Germany |
A variety of pretzels including plain, sweet and savory selections. |
