Quick Wash Laundromat

This is it! No flashes no frills. No crowd of teen mamas feeding bottles of pop to their niños pequeños saying, «Don’t worry! It’s diet!» Ok, that’s a quote from Johnny Legz’s «Spic-​O-​Rama». Anyway it’s quiet & clean. It’s simple and sleek. The friendly owner is always around just in case you need answers to questions like «Do you sell detergent?» or «Do you have a change machine?» which is actually «no» to both. Quick Wash is just around the corner walking distance from my live/​work studio on east of Ashland edge of Pilsen so of course it’s perfect for me. But if you are driving there’s street parking around all the corners. It’s a block away from Jumpin’ Bean, the best place for coffee in the ‘hood. There’s a little grocery store, YaYa, right across the street that sells laundry detergent in case you forget yours or something, which I did. YaYa can give you at least $ 5 in quarters, but you might want to get there with more than that. The largest washing machine with the double wash option, which is what I used for the at least 50 pounds of laundry I did (it had been a while) and it cost $ 10. Dryers are 25 cents for 10 minutes. I ended up doing 3 batches for 20 minutes each, if I remember correctly. I used the nice narrow vintage laminate countertop table to get my fresh clean mother load of laundry ready to carry back home in my folding multi-​use grocery cart. It’s the best laundry I’ve been to in Chicago. I risk giving it this public viral positive review online, in that, it could suddenly be raided by a swarm of «hipsters, tripsters and real cool chicks» making it too crowded for me to make the scene. But then after all it is just a laundry and the job there definitely goes Quick.