Midwest Ephemera is a letterpress print shop on Chicago’s West Side. We design and print hand-crafted invitations, handbills, stationery, posters, album sleeves and labels, ‘zines, tickets, and more. We’d love to work with you to make anything that involves ink, paper, and love.

Take a look at our work

We’re particularly excited about our Spinvite™, paper invitations that look like 7″ records. They’re perfect for attention-grabbing invitations, announcements, greeting cards, or gift certificates.

We also offer letterpress classes and workshops for all skill levels.

Visit our store for jukebox accessories and gifts for record collectors and music fans.

We also offer full design and photography services, and we can manage any print project; if we can’t do it, we’ll connect you with someone who can!.

Drop us a line at (312) 218-7079 or midwestephemera@gmail.com

Blog

Shop Small, Shop Local

(2025 edition) If there’s ever a year to really back off holiday shopping, this is it. The economy is terrible, on purpose, for obvious and correctable reasons. Capitalism is only making the mega-rich richer, and Read more

Shop, Officially Warmed

We’re excited to report that our shopwarming party turned out to be quite the event. No thanks to the Hamilton board of directors, the cancellation of the Hamilton Wayzgoose conference in Wisconsin left us (and Read more

Webcor

As mentioned back in May, our building has an interesting history. I’ve been hoarding records my whole life, and Midwest Ephemera started out as a result of my interest in jukeboxes, so imagine my delight Read more

Let’s print!

midwestephemera@gmail.com

(312) 218 -7079

Our shop:

Midwest Ephemera
5610 W. Bloomingdale Ave. #41
Chicago, IL 60639-4113

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Midwest Ephemera
6917 W. Shakespeare Ave.
Chicago, IL 60707-3355

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