The Brown Elephant - Andersonville

Very cool resale store. It is huge! They have furniture, pictures, shoes,books, purses, dvds, tons of clothes, jewelry etc.. plus so much more! If you haven’t been here, go it’s amazing! Clean store with a lot of wonderful employees!

Really cool! Great variety of everything--clothes, shoes, furniture, home goods. But it is fairly expensive for a thrift store, although it is consistent with the area. Around $8 for shirts. I would typically choose to go to the village discount or goodwill instead, but the vibes here are superb, and worth it when there are deals.

It’s Pretty organized. Their Prices aren’t bad. They have Decent variety. Friendly staff. Alex in the furniture department was very helpful. Needs a better processing area and to expand the back area. Bring your own bags.

Items priced good. But the sale associate Terry was too busy flirting with another patron and couldn’t be “bothered” to wrap our glass items. He was extremely rude. This was my first trip here from Ohio. This store was recommended on a thrift site I am on…made special trip to stop here. Never again.

Love this place. Unlike most thrift stores nowadays, this one actually keeps the prices low, which is something all thrift stores should do. The whole point of people buying used clothes is to help the environment and also to keep prices low for those who can't afford them. The store itself is gorgeous, with so many cool things to see. I will be coming back soon.

I just stopped in for the first time after moving to the neighborhood. I enjoyed it very much. All of the staff members are very nice and the quality of items were great. I am happy to support such a wonderful business again and again.

Thrifting is my passion, and out of about 30ish thrift stores I've visited across Illinois, Brown Elephant is def in my top 3. It shines in these areas: 1) Very high end things are donated to this store, and treasures can be found in abundance if you go often. Sure, there's a lot of Target and Old Navy things like any thrift store, but there's also expensive stuff since this is a wealthy neighborhood overall 2) Frequent replenishment - new things are put out every day, several times a day, so even daily visits can yield new finds 3) Lots of friendly staff members - Jaime does an excellent job as manager of being welcoming + kind to customers and staff members. Lots of lovely folks to get to know, even the curmudgeonly ones referenced in other reviews are nice deep down 4) Exceedingly reasonable prices - prices beat most other places in the area in terms of value. Sales are frequent so keep your eyes peeled on the signs outside for special deals 5) Organization and cleanliness - every item has a place across different spacious rooms and there's no need to wade through piles of junk here

Absolutely amazing. Decent supply and variety of things. Super cheap used books, furniture and jewelry, as well as reasonably priced clothes!