A Chicago button store. The world’s only button museum. Busy Beaver has come a long way since Christen Carter started the business out of her college apartment in 1995. Learn all about buttons and their history—did you know they were first patented in 1896?—relive the time when you used to show off your style by putting pins on backpacks, hats and denim jackets, and even make your own. Busy Beaver is your one-stop for all your button needs after creating over 85,000 designs and producing tens of millions of buttons. (Vasia Rigou) 3407 W. Armitage, 773.645.3359, busybeaver.net
