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Old Town Chicago – Walking and Driving Tour of Old Town

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After More Than 50 years, the Uptown Cigar is Still a Chicago Tradition
Photo © Uptown Cigar

Inside the Uptown Cigar shop in Old Town Chicago you will find five state-of-the-art, walk-in humidors that house thousands of cigars.

Photo © Uptown Cigar
Considered to be one of the "greatest tobacco stores on earth," just a few stores down from The Fudge Pot is Uptown Cigar at 1550 N. Wells St.

For the last 50 years or so, the Uptown Cigar Shop has been selling cigars, humidors, pipes, tobacco, lighters and pipe accessories. The shop also carries cigarette rolling papers and machines.

The store has five state-of-the-art, walk-in humidors that house its massive collection of cigars from all over the world, including Romeo y Juileta, Opus X, and Davidoff Mille.

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