Quad roller skate shops in Chicago

June 29, 2022 9:59 AM

Can you recommend a woman/minority-friendly skate shop in the city of Chicago that sells quad-skate gear?

My friend in Chicago ordered skates! And they're so lucky to know me - I'm getting a small kit of tools & whatnot together to send them!

But, they will also need a helmet and pads. I'd like to just buy them a gift certificate somewhere local, but even though I have Googlet and also Read It, all the shops I'm finding are painfully cool skateboard shops - even if they have pads & helmets, my friend is not a painfully cool skateboarder and may not be or feel welcome.

posted by Rat Spatula to Sports, Hobbies, & Recreation (3 answers total)

I would recommend dropping a message to the folks at the Windy City Rollers roller derby league. They’ll have somewhere they can recommend.
posted by corvine at 11:14 AM on June 29, 2022 [2 favorites]

I asked a friend in Derby and she said the best place for quad gear in person the Lombard Roller Rink, which as the name implies, is out in Lombard.
posted by zenon at 2:50 PM on June 29, 2022

Response by poster: Well thanks. Lombard is a ways out there, but it looks like the only game in town (they sponsor the Windy City Rollers - the Chicago Outfit seems to be defunct, and in any case, their sponsor was a big e-tail outfit from California).

I thought Chicago would be a big enough market to have more shops, but I probably just thought that because I'm old and I can't accept that Amazon killed everything and I helped dig graves.
posted by Rat Spatula at 10:59 PM on July 5, 2022