The following are retail locations in the greater Chicagoland area that sell Pokémon TCG products. List last updated February 2026.
Play! Pokémon Stores
These stores regularly host official Pokémon events! Emojis signify which game(s) the store lists that they support:🎴 for TCG, 🎮 for VG, and 📱 for Pokémon GO.
Click on the store’s name to be directed to a list of their upcoming events on Pokémon’s Event Locator.
Chicago
- Chicagoland Games: The Dice Dojo – Chicago, IL 🎴 (contact: Discord)
- Gamers World – Water Tower – Chicago, IL 🎴 🎮 📱
- Games and Sports Cards – Chicago, IL 🎴
- Good Games – Chicago, IL 🎴 🎮 📱 (contact: Discord)
- La Estrella Mini Mart Inc. – Chicago, IL 🎴 🎮 📱
- Logan Arch – Chicago, IL 🎴
- Spellbound Games – Chicago, IL 🎴
Near North Suburbs
- Evanston Games & Cafe – Evanston, IL 🎴 🎮 (contact: Discord)
- Gamers World – Old Orchard – Skokie, IL 🎴 (contact: Discord)
- Heroines & Heroes – Evanston, IL 🎴
- Pastimes – Niles, IL 🎴
- Perfect Circle Games – Niles, IL 🎴
- RJBreaks – Skokie, IL 🎴
- Second Level Games – Wilmette, IL 🎴
Northwest Suburbs
- Affinity For Gaming – Crystal Lake – Crystal Lake, IL 🎴
- Boar’s Hat Gaming – Elgin, IL 🎴 📱 (contact: Discord)
- Cardboard Cat Games – Rolling Meadows, IL 🎴 🎮 📱 (contact: Discord)
- Comic Buying Center – Libertyville, IL 🎴 🎮
- Drawn Together Games – Palatine, IL 🎴
- Gamers World – Gurnee Mills – Gurnee, IL 🎴
- Gamers World – Woodfield – Schaumburg, IL 🎴
- Gift of Games – Grayslake, IL 🎴
- GriffoNest Games – Woodstock, IL 🎴 (contact: Discord)
- Grognard Games – Algonquin, IL 🎴
- Home Team Collectibles – Barrington, IL 🎴
- Learning Express Toys – Lake Zurich, IL 🎴
- Nerd Rage Games – Buffalo Grove, IL 🎴
- Only Gamez – Vernon Hills, IL 🎴
- The Pieceful Project – Cary, IL 🎴
- The Pieceful Project – McHenry, IL 🎴
- Zamliy TCG – Round Lake, IL 🎴
West Suburbs
- Chupacabra Games – Naperville – Naperville, IL 🎴
- Cinderheart Gaming – Oakbrook Terrace, IL 🎴
- Dane’s Games – Geneva – Geneva, IL 🎴 (contact: Discord)
- Dane’s Games – West Chicago – West Chicago, IL 🎴 🎮
- Fair Game – Downers Grove – Downers Grove, IL 🎴
- Fair Game – La Grange – La Grange, IL 🎴
- Gamers World – Fox Valley – Aurora, IL 🎴
- Giorgi’s Game Spot – Elmhurst, IL 🎴
- Gobin Games & Hobby – Bolingbrook, IL 🎴 (contact: Discord)
- Hot Sauce Games – Downers Grove, IL 🎴 (contact: Discord)
- Koalaty – Franklin Park, IL 🎴
- MinMaxGames – Addison, IL 🎴
- Ninjacat Card Shop – Naperville, IL 🎴
- Sullys Abode – Bolingbrook, IL 🎴
- Tabletop Game Shop – Batavia, IL 🎴
- Trade Oak Park – Oak Park, IL 🎴
Southwest Suburbs
- Amazing Fantasy Books & Games – Frankfort, IL 🎴
- Battle City Gym Cards and Collectibles – Wilmington, IL 🎴
- Card Pop USA – Joliet, IL 🎴
- Chupacabra Games – Joliet – Joliet, IL 🎴
- Paper or Plastic Sports and Games – Shorewood, IL 🎴
- Redemption Vault – Palos Heights, IL 🎴
- Secret Lair Collectibles – Crestwood, IL 🎴
- Super Nova Toys and Collectibles – Bridgeview, IL 🎴
- TGS Tinley Park – Tinley Park, IL 🎴
- Top Cut Comics – Berwyn – Berwyn, IL 🎴 (contact: Discord)
- Toy Tyme Collectibles & TCG – New Lenox, IL 🎴
Near Wisconsin state line
- Beckett Castle TCG – Racine, WI 🎴
- Goldenrod City – Twin Lakes, WI 🎴
- Lake Geneva Games – Lake Geneva, WI 🎴
- My Animix – Kenosha, WI 🎴
- Xtreme Games – Antioch, IL 🎴 (contact: Discord)
Indiana
- By The Board Games & Entertainment – Lowell, IN 🎴 🎮 📱 (contact: Discord)
- High Heat Cards & Collectibles – La Porte, IN 🎴
- NWI Cards – Merrillville, IN 🎴
- Reliquary Gaming – Chesterton, IN 🎴
- Schmoley’s Gaming Cave Cafe – Crown Point, IN 🎴
- Underground Case Breaks – Hobart, IN 🎴
Rockford area
- Cataclysm Games – Machesney Park, IL 🎴 🎮 📱
- CT’s Hobbies – Belvidere, IL 🎴
- Top Cut Comics – Loves Park – Loves Park, IL 🎴 🎮 📱
Exurbs/rural
- Affinity For Gaming – DeKalb – DeKalb, IL 🎴
- Cowzah Cards – Peru, IL 🎴
- Dark Wolf Gaming Company – Earlville, IL 🎴 📱
- The Board Room – Mt Morris, IL 🎴
Other stores
These stores are not (as of February 2026) Play! Pokémon stores. They may host events unaffiliated with the Play! Pokémon program, or may just sell cards.
- Bridgeport Hobby Sports Cards – Chicago, IL
- Campaign Plus – Burlington, WI
- Critical Games – Worth, IL
- Colosseum Games – Kenosha, WI
- Dean’s Dugout – Naperville, IL
- Dragon’s Den – Willow Springs, IL
- Dreamland Comics – Libertyville, IL
- Elite Sports Cards and Comics #2 (Harlem) – Chicago, IL
- Elite Sports Cards and Comics (Montrose) – Chicago, IL
- Fair Game – Geneva, IL
- Forever After Antiques & Collectibles – Bartlett, IL
- Galaxy Comic Zone – Chicago, IL
- Game Knight – Summit, IL
- Games Plus – Mt Prospect, IL
- Geek Toy Hut – Arlington Heights, IL
- Grandmaster Games – Oak Park, IL
- Heroes Sports Cards – North Riverside, IL
- Hidden Treasures – Lombard, IL
- Maximum Distractions – Chicago, IL
- Midwest Collectibles – Romeoville, IL
- Nu Yeer Games – Hobart, IN (contact: Discord)
- PandaPops & Collectibles – Chicago, IL
- Prism Games Chicago – Chicago, IL
- Sport & Gaming Cards Plus – Niles, IL
- The Collector’s Kid – Geneva, IL
- The Sport’s Card Zone – Shorewood, IL
- The Wandering Dragon Game Shoppe – Plainfield, IL
- There’s Fun In Store – DeKalb, IL
- Timeless Entertainment – Berwyn, IL
- Top Shelf Sports Cards – Elgin, IL
- World Champs Sports Cards – Lisle, IL