Card Shops in Illinois

Illinois holds 147 independent card shops across 102 cities, and the state's shape is unusual for the Midwest: Chicago leads with 11 independents out of 24 total listings, but Naperville is right behind on 6 with no chain location at all.

Outside the Chicago collar the list flattens fast — Springfield (3), Moline (3), and Carbondale (3) — and 80 of the state's 127 listed cities have exactly one shop. Downstate coverage runs from the Quad Cities to the far south, which is worth knowing if the Chicago pages are the only ones you have been reading.

73 GameStop and 1 Vintage Stock locations bring the total to 221; 25 cities are chain-only and noindexed. Classification is 163 trading card games to 72 sports cards, 14 both.

Every Illinois entry carries an address and a map link; 209 carry a phone number, 198 post hours, and 178 link to a website. 175 have a Google rating attached, which is what the ranking on each list page is built from. Stock, buy prices and event nights are not fields in this dataset, so nothing here can tell you what is in a case today. Card Pop USA in Joliet (5.0 stars from 598 reviews), Card Pop 2 in Joliet (5.0 stars from 122 reviews), and Pop N Toyz in McHenry (5.0 stars from 88 reviews) top the ranking.

78 Illinois listings are thin records kept out of search results. The rest are well covered: 209 of 221 carry a phone number and 198 post hours, which is a high share for a state with this much rural coverage. 46 of those schedules close on Sundays and 44 on Mondays.