Chicago DUers! Where can I buy a guitar downtown?

[ZombieNixon]

Is there a music store (the kind that sells instruments) somewhere in or around the Loop or Lincoln Park areas?

[Blue-Jay]

1. I dunno. I work downtown, and haven't seen any good music stores.

At least in the area where I work. You should contact mkuhl. He would know.

[GOPisEvil]

2. I think he's BatBoy now.

But yeah, he'd know.

[Dastard Stepchild]

3. Sooo... not officially what you are looking for...

But if you get the chance, this place is pretty awesome:
http://www.specimenproducts.com/instru/index.html

If you can get to Evanston, this place is nice:
http://www.guitarworksltd.com/

[Capn Sunshine]

4. Try a pawn shop

A-AABA Jewelry & Pawn
647 W Roosevelt Rd

A-Aaron Jewelry & Pawnshop Ltd.
3411-13 W North Ave.

Guns and guitars ; a Chicago tradition.

Plus lunatics of course.

[erinlough]

5. Isn't Guitar World on Belmont

across from Ann Sathers? I used to take my son there to get guitars.

[Bat Boy]

8. Oh, we got's us some looneys.

Anything east of LaSalle is teeming with them.

At least that's what the voices tell me.

[Bat Boy]

9. Guitar Center at 2633 N. Halsted.

At least that's what I've heard.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Too damn bad that Lyon's is long gone...

It was a great music store on South Wabash...

[SlavesandBulldozers]

7. if you don't find something in Chicago

check this site out.

www.guitarden.com
"Remember, Life is too short to play a lousy guitar"

(fyi I have no ties to this store in any way, aside fom going to the Guitar Den, both online and in real life, and drooling.)