Mitchell's is the BEST. It still smells the same as it did 20 years ago when I went there on the way home from school at St. Joseph's in Homewood, and Ida with the scratchy voice, glasses and black curly hair would give my sisters & I broken candy sticks for free (FREE!), and water in the summer. I was so happy to see Mitchell's Ice Cream being sold at Edwardo's on my block now on the near north side. Mitchell's is one of those old-time places that never changes. It's perfect just the way it is, and you MUST try their chocolate chip ice cream--HOMEMADE. Everything else there is heaven, too. Now they have a location downtown, too, which I will be frequenting this summer. It's worth the walk.
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