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<blockquote data-quote="Cadence" data-source="post: 9103448" data-attributes="member: 6701124"><p>Just thinking back...</p><p></p><p>Rockford IL was metro area of around 200k in the wilds to the west of Chicago metro in the late-70s to early 90s. A hobby store with new games, a comic store with new games (iirc), a comic store with old games, a comic store with no games, and 0-2 other comic stores depending on the year... and the Walden Books and Kroch's and Brentano's and mall toy store I'm blocking on the name of had D&D for most of that time (iirc). RPG players were found in my elementary, middle, and high school and scout summer camp. But of course Rockford shows up on maps of TSR land and one of those stores' owner co-wrote Chainmail.</p><p></p><p>In mid to late 80s anyway Kankakee IL (well Bradley-Bourbonais) in the wilds south of Chicago suburb land was much smaller and had a game store.</p><p></p><p>Mt. Prospect, IL is right in Chicago suburb land and it (or whichever suburb was adjacent that direction) had one in mid to late 80s too.</p><p></p><p>Late 80s Champaign IL was a college town (c 124k?) that had a comic+game store, and added another comic store in the early 90s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cadence, post: 9103448, member: 6701124"] Just thinking back... Rockford IL was metro area of around 200k in the wilds to the west of Chicago metro in the late-70s to early 90s. A hobby store with new games, a comic store with new games (iirc), a comic store with old games, a comic store with no games, and 0-2 other comic stores depending on the year... and the Walden Books and Kroch's and Brentano's and mall toy store I'm blocking on the name of had D&D for most of that time (iirc). RPG players were found in my elementary, middle, and high school and scout summer camp. But of course Rockford shows up on maps of TSR land and one of those stores' owner co-wrote Chainmail. In mid to late 80s anyway Kankakee IL (well Bradley-Bourbonais) in the wilds south of Chicago suburb land was much smaller and had a game store. Mt. Prospect, IL is right in Chicago suburb land and it (or whichever suburb was adjacent that direction) had one in mid to late 80s too. Late 80s Champaign IL was a college town (c 124k?) that had a comic+game store, and added another comic store in the early 90s. [/QUOTE]
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