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Teddy bear and doll repair in Illinois

5 businesses whose own websites say they are in Illinois. 3 take work in person.

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Where they are

Chicago, Deerfield and Naperville. One more does not name a town.

What kind of business

Four doll hospitals, one free repair cafe.

Getting it to them

Three take work in person, one takes it by post, two do not say how. Ring before you drive anywhere.

What they say they do

One says it repairs joints. One replaces eyes and noses.

Prices they publish

  • Angelic Creations Doll and Toy Hospital: minimum charge $20
  • Gigi's Dolls & Sherry's Teddy Bears: Hair clean and style, heavily curled doll (e.g. Shirley Temple), from $50

Two of five publish a price for the work. The rest quote after they have seen it.

In Illinois

  • Angelic Creations Doll and Toy Hospital

    A doll and teddy bear hospital west of Chicago, run by the same person for over forty years and now working from home. Everything starts with a paid examination, in person or by post, and most toys have to be cleaned before any repair begins. It takes stuffed animals as readily as dolls, and accepts donated toys for parts.

    60563(630) 740-8128whittville@gmail.com

    In their words: “We should not have to repair a toy covered in saliva, vomit, germs or animal fluids. We would like to or need to clean it first.”

    Naperville

    you can hand it over, takes it by post

  • Gigi's Dolls & Sherry's Teddy Bears

    A doll and teddy bear shop on Northwest Highway in Chicago with a doll hospital counter: restringing, wig and hair work, porcelain and composition repairs and face paint touch-ups, plus some sewing, surface cleaning and new eyes, noses and stuffing for bears and other animals.

    6029 N Northwest Hwy, Chicago, IL 60631(773) 594-1540questions@gigisdolls.com

    In their words: “Sorry, we cannot restring celluloid dolls.”

    Chicago

    Said openread off their site yesterday

    you can hand it over

  • The Attic CouturierDDA member

    Listed in the Doll Doctors Association hospital locator, in Deerfield, IL. Their own website no longer answers, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs.

    Their site

    Deerfield

    Doesn’t say how you get it to them

  • Repair Café Chicago (Sulzer Regional Library)

    A free, donation-based repair café hosted by Forward Chicago at Sulzer Regional Library in Lincoln Square on the second Saturday of each month. Volunteers restitch stuffed animals among other repairs.

    Sulzer Regional Library, 4455 N Lincoln Ave, ChicagoNo mail-free route stated

    Chicago

    you can hand it over

  • Dollmenders

    Listed in a published list of doll hospitals by state, in IL. The website the directory gives no longer loads. We have not read a website for them, so we cannot tell you what they take on, what they refuse, or what it costs. The contact details are theirs and are published here as the directory published them. Ring before you rely on any of it: of the entries in these same lists that did give a website, nearly half pointed at a domain that no longer exists.

    (815) 467-6472

    Illinois

    Doesn’t say how you get it to them

Everywhere, including Illinois

6 of these are national rather than local: a chain with a shop near most people, a restoration franchise dispatched to wherever the damage is, a manufacturer's own service. They are as available in Illinois as anywhere else.

The Doll Doctors Association lists a member in Illinois

We are not going to reprint their phone numbers here. Those were published by the association, about them, and passing them on second hand from a site they have never heard of is not ours to do. Their own locator is the list those people agreed to be on, and it is the one that gets kept up to date.

  • The Attic Couturier

    Deerfield · has a website

Their locator, with the contact details Read their guidance before you send anything. They say plainly: do not ship until the hospital has agreed to take it, and insure it for its replacement value both ways.

Or post it to one of these

23 businesses anywhere in the country say they take work by post. Before you send anything: of the 194 we have read, 2 say anything about insuring your item while it is with them. Insure the parcel yourself, both ways.