Marco;
I used to live in the NW suburbs of Chicago myself, about 10 years ago<g>. Whatever happened to Fly&Field in Northbrook, Saturday Morning in Barrington and Riverside Sports in Batavia? All were good shops, tho Riverside was not a fly only shop, they had a very large fly section, lots of materials and equipment. Saturday Morning was one of the places that I first saw bamboo fly rods, they had a small forest of them hanging from the ceiling, mostly Orvis as they were an Orvis shop, but other makes also, I bet there were 50 or more at any given time.
john