I live in the southwest suburbs of Chicago…I can’t find a foreign currency exchange store anywhere online. There’s a "Currency Exchange" place near my house, but that’s for cashing checks and getting birth/marriage/death certificates and stuff like that. I need to get 10 Euros in order to buy something from Ireland (they don’t accept US dollars). Does anyone know of one? I can’t go downtown either…Is there any place in the suburbs that swap money?
Most internationally accepted credit cards will exchange the currency automatically when you make the purchase. So if they accept credit cards, you can just do that.
If you have to use cash, many regular banks can exchange currency, but in my experience, most suburban banks will have to order it for you, so it can take some time.
June 6th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Most internationally accepted credit cards will exchange the currency automatically when you make the purchase. So if they accept credit cards, you can just do that.
If you have to use cash, many regular banks can exchange currency, but in my experience, most suburban banks will have to order it for you, so it can take some time.
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June 6th, 2010 at 2:14 pm
I don’t know anybody. Try to google that.
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June 6th, 2010 at 2:27 pm
This is from another forum about this
"if you really really need to get some here, you can go to the american express office and they have a real live currency exchange (not one of those fake ones that cashes checks!)… …some banks will have euros too but you might have to pre-order them? nobody here will have a good deal, though."
A link to the full discussion is below along with a link to the Dex search page for Chicago American Express offices. I would call them before I went in. Maybe the ones downtown would be the best bet.
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http://www.yelp.com/topic/chicago-best-place-to-get-euros
http://www.dexknows.com/search/?what=american+express&where=chicago%2C+il&btnG.x=0&btnG.y=0&btnG=Search