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Hi all,

 

I am from Belgium and I can't find a European online shop that sells a pilot metropolitan with Fine nib or a Noodler's konrad flex.

 

In a month, I will be travelling to Chicago for a holiday, so I was thinking about buying the two pens in America.

 

Do you guys know if I can find them somewhere in a store in Chicago?

 

Many thanks!

 

Kind regards,

Lizz

 

 

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I live in Chicago, but I'm not aware of any retailer in the city that sells these pens. I have no experience with Pilot pens, although you may find some at Mitsuwa Marketplace just about 25 miles northwest of downtown, in Arlington Heights. Mitsuwa is a huge Asian market with a grocery store, liquor store, travel agency, food court and a book/stationery store. I was there last weekend and saw that they do, in fact, carry some Pilot pens. I just don't know which models are there.

 

As for the Konrad, I have two of these myself, but I did not buy them in Chicago. Mine came from Daly's pens, which is actually in Milwaukee, Wisconsin - about 85 miles north of Chicago.

 

There is one remaining pen store in downtown Chicago - Century Pens, but I have never been there. You could look them up on the web and get their phone number and call once you're in town.

 

There is also a place called Executive Essentials, in Arlington Heights, about 15 miles northwest of downtown, that has a pen counter and might carry what you want.

 

If you're in the western suburbs, there is a Paradise Pen shop in the Oak Brook Mall, about 20 miles west of downtown.

 

It is sad that Chicago has so few retail pen shops, but that is what it has come to.

 

P.S. The last I heard, Gilbertson-Clybourn (mentioned in the post just above mine) has closed. Their web site is no longer active, and I was told that they closed.

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You could stop in Dalys Pen Shop in Milwaukee WI north of Chicago IL I just checked their site and they carry the pen brands you are looking for.

 

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