Walk east from Wood Street along the 1800 block of West 103rd and count the doors. Beverly Phono Mart is selling records from 1802. Honey & Hue Bookstore is at 1804. Beverly Phono Mart's original storefront at 1808 has been under repair since the early hours of January 1, when a crash also shut the Beverly Area Arts Alliance's Ephemera Gallery next door at 1810. The FoundHERS Suite, upstairs at 1808, has had to leave the building.
That block is the center of the 99th and 103rd Street shopping district's Holiday Hurrah, set for December 12, 2026, according to the Morgan Park Beverly Hills Business Association. This year the event runs on a street that's still missing some of the places that defined it last December. Two shops that are just turning one year old are covering more of the gap.
What happened at 1808 and 1810, and where things stand
At about 2:20 a.m. on New Year's Day, an eastbound driver lost control on the 1800 block of West 103rd Street, jumped the curb and hit the side of a building, Block Club Chicago reported. The crash badly damaged Beverly Phono Mart at 1808, Ephemera Gallery at 1810 and The FoundHERS Suite on the second floor at 1808.
The three businesses have had very different years since:
- Beverly Phono Mart opened a pop-up called BPM Express at 1802 W. 103rd St. on February 6, two doors down from its original space, according to Block Club Chicago. The shop held Record Store Day there on April 18, and Southwest Regional Publishing described the original storefront as still under repair. By the Beverly Art Walk on September 26, the Alliance's venue roster still listed the store at 1802.
- The FoundHERS Suite, LaTanya Orr's women-centered coworking space, was ordered out by the end of March after the building was deemed dangerous, the Southland Development Authority reported. Orr told the authority she had submitted a letter of intent on a new space on Chicago's South Side.
- Ephemera Gallery, which opened in September 2025 ahead of that year's Art Walk, closed until further notice after the crash. The Beverly Area Arts Alliance's website is the place to check its status before you plan a visit.
In February, co-owner Mallory McClaire explained to Block Club Chicago why the store wanted a physical counter instead of selling only online:
"Shopping for records is a hands-on experience. You can find what you're looking for online, but that element of discovery isn't necessarily there when you're online."
That instinct to keep a door open on the block, even a temporary one, matters for the holiday season.
The Holiday Hurrah program was written for last year's block
The Holiday Hurrah page on the MPBHBA site carries the 2026 date. The business-by-business program below it still describes the street as it was before January 1. It lists holiday gift wrapping and children's ornament decorating at Ephemera Gallery at 1810 W. 103rd St., plus a FoundHERS Suite holiday market with 11 pop-up vendors. It also lists a vintage pop-up market at 1802 W. 103rd St., the storefront that has been home to Beverly Phono Mart's temporary shop for most of 2026.
So the posted lineup is best treated as a record of last year's Hurrah, not a confirmed 2026 schedule. Several parts of it don't depend on the damaged building. Last year's 99th Street side ran from Afro Joe's Coffee & Tea at 1818 W. 99th St. to Two Mile's holiday photo booth, Calabria Imports' afternoon jazz with the Peanuts Band, and a Santa photo stop at 1743 W. 99th St. The Beverly Review's photo recap described Holiday Hurrah drawing people to the 99th and 103rd Street shops for Santa and live music.
The shops turning one year old carry more of the block
The block's newest storefronts both opened last November, which puts their first anniversaries in the weeks just before Holiday Hurrah.
Honey & Hue Bookstore, 1804 W. 103rd St., held its grand opening on November 15, 2025, Block Club Chicago reported. Raven White described it to Block Club as a welcoming third place that showcases Black and Brown voices. It sits between Phono Mart's pop-up at 1802 and the damaged storefront at 1808, so it's the steadiest open door on that stretch.
The Unwaste Shop is a refill and reuse store whose Beverly location on 103rd Street opened last November, according to Southwest Regional Publishing. The Beverly Area Planning Association lists it at 1913 W. 103rd St., the same address as Root Consignment Company, which has been selling vintage and reusable goods there since 2013. That puts two reuse shops at one address on the 1900 block.
Over on Walden Parkway, Oleander & Artesian at 9911 S. Walden Pkwy. officially opened its expanded space on November 22, 2025, according to the Beverly Area Planning Association. So this will be the first full holiday season in the bigger shop, a few doors from Two Mile Coffee Bar at 9907 S. Walden Pkwy.
The season, in order
The 103rd Street story sits inside a longer calendar that starts at the Beverly Arts Center and ends with a gift card drawing in January.
| Date | Event | Where |
|---|---|---|
| Sat., Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m. | Chicago Jazz Philharmonic and Orbert Davis, Sketches of Spain: Revisited | Beverly Arts Center |
| Sat., Nov. 21 | Ruth Page's The Nutcracker Suite, two performances | Beverly Arts Center |
| Nov. 28 to Dec. 31 | Holiday Bingo shop-local promotion | Participating Beverly and Morgan Park businesses |
| Sat., Dec. 5 | Holiday Road | Western Avenue, 99th to 115th streets, plus Church 103 |
| Sat., Dec. 12 | Holiday Hurrah | 99th and 103rd Street shopping district |
Tickets and performance times for both Arts Center shows are on the Beverly Arts Center events calendar. The Nutcracker falls three weeks before Holiday Hurrah and one week before Bingo starts.
Western Avenue goes first, and it's a different kind of day
Holiday Road on December 5 covers a much longer stretch than the Hurrah, from 99th to 115th streets along Western Avenue. The association says its free hop-on, hop-off trolley is back and runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Western Avenue is built for a trolley. The Hurrah's two clusters, 99th Street and Walden Parkway plus the 1800 and 1900 blocks of 103rd, can each be covered on foot in an afternoon.
The Holiday Road page links to 2025 scavenger hunt and film fest files, so its activity list also looks carried over from last year. Last year's day included loteria at Americanos, Santa visits at Haven 1890 and Open Outcry Brewing, and the Beverly Area Arts Alliance's Uprising Craft Market at the Beverly Arts Center from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. The Beverly Review's recap describes cold-weather crowds riding the trolley to activities including loteria, Santa visits, obstacle courses, ornament making and jewelry making.
Holding the two events a week apart gives Western Avenue and the 103rd Street district their own Saturdays. On December 12, the 1800 block isn't competing with a 16-block trolley route.
Bingo ties the two districts together
Holiday Bingo runs November 28 through December 31, 2026, the only part of the season that spans both Saturdays and both districts. Last year's rules worked like this. You picked up a card at a participating business or printed one from the Holiday Bingo page, collected a sticker with each purchase, and turned in completed cards for a gift card drawing. Last season's cards were due January 6 at the Beverly Review office, 10546 S. Western Ave. That page still shows the 2025 card, so check it for this year's card and deadline before you start collecting.
The 2025 card listed businesses on both 99th and 103rd streets, including 411 Immuni-Tea at 1816 W. 103rd St. and Afro Joe's at 1818 W. 99th St. On a card like that, a stop at Honey & Hue or Beverly Phono Mart's pop-up counts the same as a stop on Western Avenue.
One more stop near the Metra
95th Street has something new for the season too. Chitown Sweets, 1803 W. 95th St., opened in August 2026 near the 95th Street Beverly Hills Metra station, serving smoothies, fresh lemonade, mini pancakes and Dubai chocolate-covered strawberries, Block Club Chicago reported. Owner Maddy Taylor told Block Club she wants it to be a morning spot that turns into a hangout for kids at night. Block Club listed its hours as 8:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. weekdays and 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on weekends. It isn't on either holiday route, which makes it handy for a Bingo-season errand on any other day.
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