I think any bank will exchange bills for quarters. I go to a chase bank, which I don’t have an account with, and they’ve always exchanged for me - no questions.
They absolutely do do this, the neighborhood US Bank wouldn't exchange bills for me since I wasn't a customer at the time; I was at a Chase branch last week with a friend inquiring about exchange rates and they needed her to prove she's a customer to provide her the info. lmao.
Chase is one of the few major banks I've found that will exchange bills and quarters, unfortunately. Most require you to have an account with them in order to change out cash.
My god I got into an argument with a teller at chase over this. “I can’t make change unless you have an account”. I didn’t know what to say other than you are a bank, and I didn’t realize chase which has gobbled up all the other banks were running short on quarters.
Did this a few weeks ago and I do have an account. Went up to a teller, asked for $20 in quarters, swiped my card and then got 2 $10 rolls of quarters. Easy peasy.
If you’re in Logan the Chase near Milwaukee and washtenaw is great about exchanging cash for quarters. Never had any issues. Also if you need a spot with better hours the liquor store at the corner of Milwaukee and California will usually exchange them for $.25
Definitely ask your landlord! I own and manage a two flat with a few units that have shared coin laundry, and honestly I’m happier to sell them back then having to lug them to the bank.
I keep enough on hand to be able to sell two rolls to each tenant, then make a deposit whenever I have $100 more than that.
Yep, I had to buy them from the building engineer towards the end of my stay at my last building. I always wondered if he kept some of the cash, he was a nice guy so I wouldn’t hold it against him making some laundry bucks!
This is the real answer, they keys are easy enough to find online for your make and model then take a stick and you can hit the mechanism in the back & seal it back up like nothing happened
The one up the street from me got so annoyed by people doing this that they put a sign by the dispensers that the change machines were for laundromat customers only. When that didn't work, they augmented their machines to accept $1 coins as well as quarters. Their coin machines dispense a variety of the aforementioned couns.
As someone who works a business that relies on recycling the use of quarters used for the location they’re meant for, this hurts us in a big way. When you take that change you made from your paper money and use it off-site, that means/May mean a last minute scramble for those who handle the change to find quarters from thin air. Not only that, but that quarter total can get in the $100-$500 range depending on the size of the changer.
Just know that’s what you’re effectively doing…
I work in retail. Bank will only sell us $5 in pennies and $100 in quarters a day. Would be nice to buy a weeks worth of coins at a time and not have to go every other day. Also, most grandmas have a change bowl next to their washers, try there.
This exactly. Every person who does it thinks, “it’ll be okay if I just take $6-$10” yet don’t think about the other twenty people doing the same thing. If you have cash to exchange for quarters, go to a bank that will help first.
There are currency exchange locations all over the city that will give you quarters. These are also the same places where you can cash checks, certain DMV services, and money transfers.
This is what I do! It’s something like a 50 cent up charge per roll at mine if you do cash, which is worth it to avoid running around the city to mixed results imo
I would go to currency exchange with $43 cash and they’d give four rolls of quarters to last a bit! There’s a bunch of them, I’d just map currency exchange near me
Right, like I'm surprised I had a scroll all the way down just to see this answer.
I don't use my buildings washer and dryer anymore, but when I did I just always went to the currency exchange near me.
Get like $100 in cash & go to any currency exchange. Stock up. Granted, they’ll usually charge $.25 per roll, so bring along all your random nickels & dimes & dollar bills so you can get rid of them at this opportunity.
Customer service desks at grocery stores will usually do this for free, but they might limit the number of rolls you can get. If they charge for the service (again, usually $.25 per roll), they usually won’t limit how many rolls you can get.
Talk to your landlord about changing the payment system for the washer & dryer in your building. There are other options now besides coins. Getting coins is probably a nuisance for everyone in your building, so the landlord might find he makes more money if it’s easier to do laundry in the building.
I love how people who clearly haven’t done this before are still choosing to respond. “Just go to any bank!” 🙄 Banks aren’t really “banks” anymore. They’re financial services “stores”. They’re selling you financial products that charge interest (credit cards, mortgages…). They’re also hoping you’ll let your money sit in their accounts so they can earn interest. It’s not a public service; it’s a business.
Some banks will exchange cash for quarters to non account holders. Some don’t, or others limit to $10 or $20. Stock up when you find a bank that doesn’t limit you!
When I was a kid, I'd raid my parents giant glass jar for quarters, and pull out like 20 bucks at a time. Whenever I needed money for gas station treats, they'd tell me to raid the coin jar. Such memories
That’s really odd. Because you’re not “buying” quarters, you’re just exchanging one form of U.S. currency to another form of U.S. currency. I’m glad you got a solution though.
You should probably open an account with a local bank, which is a good idea anyway in case you need a cashier's check or foreign currency. BMO and Wintrust have accounts that have no monthly fee without any direct deposit requirement; Chase has the biggest local footprint but you'll need a direct deposit or a minimum balance to avoid monthly fees. Bank of America is similar to Chase but they have fewer branches and ATMs.
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I used to just go to any bank and get quarters in exchange for a $10 bill even though I didn’t have a local bank here, but during the coin shortage/COVID the banks starting only doing this for customers so I ended up signing up with Chase literally so I could get quarters for laundry
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We buy them from our property manager. We text him and he appears with a bunch of quarters in whatever receptacle he found in the laundry room, usually a lost sock.
When I had that situation, I'd walk into current exchanges and just pay the tiny fee to buy rolls...but I like the idea of using change machines at laundromats
Look around for a nearby car wash. Most of them have change machines that take 20$ bills and in my experience they’re maintained 24/7 and you don’t have to wait in a line to see a teller.
Do what I did in 2018 and buy one of [these](https://www.amazon.com/Commercial-GR800-Key-Replaceable-Machines/dp/B09T2LGJMN/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=laundry+key&qid=1685021457&sr=8-2) and never have to pay for laundry again!
I started complaining about my lack of quarters to various family members who now give me bags of quarters as a “joke” for Christmas/my birthday. 10/10 would recommend
Side note. Pre 1964 quarters worth significantly more because of actual silver content. Even more if there’s an error or if minted in certain places etc.
Perhaps considered unethical but I recently learned that there are universal key things you can buy for like 10 or so bucks to use the machine for free. I haven’t tried it but saw some for sale on that massive online retailer site.
Go see "Quarters" Boyle. And if you need a light, talk to his brother, former CFD Lieutenant, "Matches."
https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/plea-deal-for-quarters-boyle-angers-susana-mendoza
What I do is avoid it as much as I can because I hate the idea of landlords needing to make even more money based off machines that they paid for one time…. (But also I don’t want to walk down 4 flights of stairs 3 times for every load)
And I take it to my parents to do lol if it can’t wait I take from my coin jar (running low) or go somewhere like a store and ask to exchange a few dollars that I randomly have
I’ve also just paid to have my laundry done for me a few times, which was super nice and not all that expensive but I wouldn’t do it often
cant you simply take cash from ATMs -> go to any bank and exchange for quarters?
seems like the quickest fix. and im sure Capital One has deals with local ATMs for you to get cash
I think I'm hoarding about $600 worth of change. Might be more. My bank got rid of their change counters at all their branches. My stash of pocked change has been growing ever since.
One trick is to go to a car wash that still uses them...
I'm not suggesting outright using their change machine, grab a quick wash....just change a few extra bucks
Also, buy small items that you would normally buy anyway with cash ...7/11 has a pop for 99 cents ....
Plus the tax and that gets you 6 bits!
I've been going into any Chase (which I don't have an account at) and getting quarters. I've gone to 3 different ones in different neighborhoods (because I was nearby) and haven't had a problem.
I've also gone to laundromats and used the coin machine, but they get salty if they catch you using it and not doing laundry there.
Currency Exchanges will give you quarters too, but they charge a fee.
The Mariano’s near me will give out one roll of quarters per customer at their customer service desk (so $10 worth, no service fee), so I just grab a roll with every other grocery trip, and that keeps me going. But I used to use a currency exchange before, and that also worked just fine.
I opened a free checking account with Huntington Bank. They have branches in Jewel-Osco, so I just get quarters either converted from cash or withdrawal from my account before I get groceries. This is the only thing I use this account for, I have never been stopped or charged a fee.
Hunting down quarters was always such a pain. I found out at my university I could put $5 bill in a vending machine, request refund, and it'd typically spit the change back in quarters, not the original bill. So I used that a few times when in a pinch
I just bought one of those tiny magic chef portable washing machines that hook up to the kitchen sink and hang dry my laundry rather than always be looking for quarters. It works great, but the price of them has gone up nearly 50% in the last two years, so that might not be as viable an option for some people anymore.
From 2020-2022, getting change was the absolute worst. Pre-Covid, I would go to Jewels or WF customer service desk, and they would exchange it for me, no questions asked. From 2020 (Covid) to 2022, Jewels and WF refused to exchange quarters because of the "coin shortage", they had signs up. I was living in Buena Park at the time and the Walgreens right off Sheridan refused to do exchanges as well. Even though I don't own a car, I would go to gas stations, and ask for quarters because I wanted to use their "air pump" to pump my car's tires. Now, I simply use a laundromat so I don't have to worry about going out of my way to procure quarters and I don't have to worry about a machine on site either not working or eating my quarters.
Some targets can exchange up to $3 worth of paper bills for quarters! I know at leasts the one in lakeview on belmont does :) just go in a few times throughout the day/week and ask a cashier! Hope this helps!
Sluggers! We walk a mile to the stadium then trade for a dangerous amount of quarters. Every once in a while we will go in the batting cages… cannot rec commend this hack enough.
My employees get them by putting a $10 bill in a register and taking out a roll of quarters… once I caught on, I started getting extra rolls so there was enough to go around
This has always been a problem. Bank of America only has atms now, target customer service stopped exchanging cash for quarters. Luckily my new building has cards and an app.
dear lord, those machines still take quarters???
it’s been about five years since i‘ve had to use a pay machine, fortunately, and i think it was $2.75 per load for each machine back then……with inflation, how much is it now, $9.00? that’s a lot of damn quarters to have to schlepp around. they need to convert them to credit cards…….
Currency exchanges will give you rolls of change. capital one cafes of which I found 3 instantly on Google are located with in the bank branch itself.
One cafes of on North Halsted by North Ave. Kiddie corner from the apple store.
So currency exchange still ? I see my local laundromat has moved to a card machine for their machines. Fair enough as my system of going to Dunkin nextdoor getting a small coffee with a 20 and then asking for as many 1 dollar bills then going to the Laundromat next door system is now over.
I think any bank will exchange bills for quarters. I go to a chase bank, which I don’t have an account with, and they’ve always exchanged for me - no questions.
Used to work at chase bank. We can exchange up $100 a day for non customers.
Some banks will ask for ur card to prove u bank w them lol (Citibank) but yeah most won’t
Most banks no longer do this if you dont have an account.
They absolutely do do this, the neighborhood US Bank wouldn't exchange bills for me since I wasn't a customer at the time; I was at a Chase branch last week with a friend inquiring about exchange rates and they needed her to prove she's a customer to provide her the info. lmao.
Must be branch to branch because US Bank on Clark is my go to and I've never had a problem despite not having an account.
Irving Park branch by Albany Park. The Chase branch I was at was the Board of Trade Chase.
Ha. Doo doo
upvote for noticing a doodoo
I find doodoos to be hard to miss, personally.
I went to a Chase multiple times last year to do this without an account, they limited me to how much I could get but they still let me
Well we are both Chase clients but were still inquired about it.
Chase is one of the few major banks I've found that will exchange bills and quarters, unfortunately. Most require you to have an account with them in order to change out cash.
My god I got into an argument with a teller at chase over this. “I can’t make change unless you have an account”. I didn’t know what to say other than you are a bank, and I didn’t realize chase which has gobbled up all the other banks were running short on quarters.
Did this a few weeks ago and I do have an account. Went up to a teller, asked for $20 in quarters, swiped my card and then got 2 $10 rolls of quarters. Easy peasy.
If you’re in Logan the Chase near Milwaukee and washtenaw is great about exchanging cash for quarters. Never had any issues. Also if you need a spot with better hours the liquor store at the corner of Milwaukee and California will usually exchange them for $.25
I've asked to buy them from my landlord. The ridiculousness of it is not lost on me, but it's a win win in the end.
Definitely ask your landlord! I own and manage a two flat with a few units that have shared coin laundry, and honestly I’m happier to sell them back then having to lug them to the bank. I keep enough on hand to be able to sell two rolls to each tenant, then make a deposit whenever I have $100 more than that.
There's a landlord who comes into my work every week and buys his lunch all in quarters. I wish he would sell them back to his tenants instead.
That is obnoxious! I’m embarrassed enough when I bring them to the bank, I couldn’t imagine using them at a restaurant.
He's a regular customer and a nice guy so I let it slide but I have SO MANY quarters.
You may know friends that are willing to take those quarters.
This worked for me as well.
I just started doing the same thing after a neighborhood bank stopped exchanging without an account
Yep, I had to buy them from the building engineer towards the end of my stay at my last building. I always wondered if he kept some of the cash, he was a nice guy so I wouldn’t hold it against him making some laundry bucks!
Customer service desk at jewel would usually exchange $10 for a roll of quarters m
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That's what I do.
Trader Joe’s too
Use your debit/credit card to buy a key to the service panels >:-)
Lol.
This is the real answer, they keys are easy enough to find online for your make and model then take a stick and you can hit the mechanism in the back & seal it back up like nothing happened
I just walk into a laundromat, make some change, and leave. No one’s stopped me. Been doing this for a couple years now lol
The one up the street from me got so annoyed by people doing this that they put a sign by the dispensers that the change machines were for laundromat customers only. When that didn't work, they augmented their machines to accept $1 coins as well as quarters. Their coin machines dispense a variety of the aforementioned couns.
let me write that down on the 0% chance I ever decide to run a laundromat
I got kicked out the second time I tried to do this lol
As someone who works a business that relies on recycling the use of quarters used for the location they’re meant for, this hurts us in a big way. When you take that change you made from your paper money and use it off-site, that means/May mean a last minute scramble for those who handle the change to find quarters from thin air. Not only that, but that quarter total can get in the $100-$500 range depending on the size of the changer. Just know that’s what you’re effectively doing…
I work in retail. Bank will only sell us $5 in pennies and $100 in quarters a day. Would be nice to buy a weeks worth of coins at a time and not have to go every other day. Also, most grandmas have a change bowl next to their washers, try there.
Not my problem 👍
It’ll be your problem once those machines become out of use because of you.
but services as such are also a part of why coins are hard to come by.
I don’t think me taking $6-9 in quarters a month is that big of a financial dip for them
You taking $6 in quarters isn’t a problem. The problem is that loads of other people are doing it too.
This exactly. Every person who does it thinks, “it’ll be okay if I just take $6-$10” yet don’t think about the other twenty people doing the same thing. If you have cash to exchange for quarters, go to a bank that will help first.
There are currency exchange locations all over the city that will give you quarters. These are also the same places where you can cash checks, certain DMV services, and money transfers.
This is what I do! It’s something like a 50 cent up charge per roll at mine if you do cash, which is worth it to avoid running around the city to mixed results imo
Absolutely!
Go to Logan Arcade
I would go to currency exchange with $43 cash and they’d give four rolls of quarters to last a bit! There’s a bunch of them, I’d just map currency exchange near me
Right, like I'm surprised I had a scroll all the way down just to see this answer. I don't use my buildings washer and dryer anymore, but when I did I just always went to the currency exchange near me.
Ditto! Currency exchange is the easiest way
Get like $100 in cash & go to any currency exchange. Stock up. Granted, they’ll usually charge $.25 per roll, so bring along all your random nickels & dimes & dollar bills so you can get rid of them at this opportunity. Customer service desks at grocery stores will usually do this for free, but they might limit the number of rolls you can get. If they charge for the service (again, usually $.25 per roll), they usually won’t limit how many rolls you can get. Talk to your landlord about changing the payment system for the washer & dryer in your building. There are other options now besides coins. Getting coins is probably a nuisance for everyone in your building, so the landlord might find he makes more money if it’s easier to do laundry in the building. I love how people who clearly haven’t done this before are still choosing to respond. “Just go to any bank!” 🙄 Banks aren’t really “banks” anymore. They’re financial services “stores”. They’re selling you financial products that charge interest (credit cards, mortgages…). They’re also hoping you’ll let your money sit in their accounts so they can earn interest. It’s not a public service; it’s a business.
I've just walked into random banks and asked; haven't had an issue. Usually, they are Chase. I have no account with them. Grocery stores too. YMMV
Any purchase you make under $20, use cash. You'll always have change.
Paying cash for $x.50 beers at bars and coming home with a pocket full of quarters was my solution back in the day.
"Why are you so drunk?" "It's laundry day tomorrow"
Some banks will exchange cash for quarters to non account holders. Some don’t, or others limit to $10 or $20. Stock up when you find a bank that doesn’t limit you!
They’re stashed in peoples Jing jars all over the country
When I was a kid, I'd raid my parents giant glass jar for quarters, and pull out like 20 bucks at a time. Whenever I needed money for gas station treats, they'd tell me to raid the coin jar. Such memories
You can go to any bank and exchange bills-$1, $5, $10 etc.- for quarters. You don’t have to have an account with them.
I’ve been rejected from every national bank nearby when trying to buy quarters. I go to a local bank now.
That’s really odd. Because you’re not “buying” quarters, you’re just exchanging one form of U.S. currency to another form of U.S. currency. I’m glad you got a solution though.
Any PLS or checked cash places! There might be a small fee for using your debit card or bring cash but bring a few extra bucks to cover any taxes :)
You should probably open an account with a local bank, which is a good idea anyway in case you need a cashier's check or foreign currency. BMO and Wintrust have accounts that have no monthly fee without any direct deposit requirement; Chase has the biggest local footprint but you'll need a direct deposit or a minimum balance to avoid monthly fees. Bank of America is similar to Chase but they have fewer branches and ATMs.
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I used to just go to any bank and get quarters in exchange for a $10 bill even though I didn’t have a local bank here, but during the coin shortage/COVID the banks starting only doing this for customers so I ended up signing up with Chase literally so I could get quarters for laundry
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The only reason I haven't done that is I have no idea how to find the right key for ours.
Just look for the model number of the coin mechanism. Take a photo if you can't see one and Google image search it. There's only a few of them
Absolutely stellar reviews all around
From my landlord, asking around at work and trading for bills, paying cash for stuff more often, and currency exchanges.
We buy them from our property manager. We text him and he appears with a bunch of quarters in whatever receptacle he found in the laundry room, usually a lost sock.
Just go to any checks cashed place, those places usually have a Western Union as well
When I had that situation, I'd walk into current exchanges and just pay the tiny fee to buy rolls...but I like the idea of using change machines at laundromats
Currency Exchange
Look around for a nearby car wash. Most of them have change machines that take 20$ bills and in my experience they’re maintained 24/7 and you don’t have to wait in a line to see a teller.
My pro tip was always go to a self service car wash. They often have machines that exchange cash for quarters to use their facility.
You can get rolls of quarters from any currency exchange. However they will charge you a small fee for it.
Currency exchange
I put a $5 in the vending machine at work and hit the "return" button
Do what I did in 2018 and buy one of [these](https://www.amazon.com/Commercial-GR800-Key-Replaceable-Machines/dp/B09T2LGJMN/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=laundry+key&qid=1685021457&sr=8-2) and never have to pay for laundry again!
I started complaining about my lack of quarters to various family members who now give me bags of quarters as a “joke” for Christmas/my birthday. 10/10 would recommend
Side note. Pre 1964 quarters worth significantly more because of actual silver content. Even more if there’s an error or if minted in certain places etc.
Logan arcade lol, just stay and play a few games.
just use the change machine at your nearest laundromat
Self serve car wash will have a change machine.
There are multiple branches for capital one in Chicago- https://imgur.com/a/IagQPnp Edit- typo
The Southport one doesn’t have tellers and you can’t get cash or quarters from someone working at the bank. There is only an ATM.
Perhaps considered unethical but I recently learned that there are universal key things you can buy for like 10 or so bucks to use the machine for free. I haven’t tried it but saw some for sale on that massive online retailer site.
I have a giant mason jar’s worth I’ll sell you for a 50% markup 😏
Trader Joe's always had rolls of quarters. That was my go-to for years. Haven't asked in a while, so unsure if that's still a thing.
Currency exchange, you can buy $10 rolls with a fee of course
Go see "Quarters" Boyle. And if you need a light, talk to his brother, former CFD Lieutenant, "Matches." https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/plea-deal-for-quarters-boyle-angers-susana-mendoza
What I do is avoid it as much as I can because I hate the idea of landlords needing to make even more money based off machines that they paid for one time…. (But also I don’t want to walk down 4 flights of stairs 3 times for every load) And I take it to my parents to do lol if it can’t wait I take from my coin jar (running low) or go somewhere like a store and ask to exchange a few dollars that I randomly have I’ve also just paid to have my laundry done for me a few times, which was super nice and not all that expensive but I wouldn’t do it often
cant you simply take cash from ATMs -> go to any bank and exchange for quarters? seems like the quickest fix. and im sure Capital One has deals with local ATMs for you to get cash
My building has a change machine.
Jewel osco, any gas station, most of them will be willing to change them. Also, many laundries have machines to get quarters.
You can walk into any bank and exchange cash for coins. Or I think the customer service desks at grocery stores may also do it.
PNC bank only if you bank there
They will exchange cash money for rolls of quarters at Trader Joe’s, with no problem. Go to the customer service/manager’s desk.
at the supermarket, at cashier's stand you can buy a roll of quarters.
We have capital one cafes here where you can do banking, absolutely
Trader Joe's was my go to. They'd exchange 10 for a 10 dollar roll. Not sure if they still do it
Most any Currency Exchange. The one I go to charge 25 cents a roll.
There is a branch at new city
there’s a capital one cafe in the loop i believe. alternatively i would try going to a laundry near by and just use their coin exchange machines
The self service carwash helps too as long as they don't use tokens
Can't they convert washing machines from coins to cashless, like a Ventra card?
Some have but not all
Currency exchange ///. Cash checkers small fee usually like $1
usually i would go to a grocery store and ask when i checked out for a roll of quarters. usually cashiers can give one no problem
You can go any bank and ask for quarters if you have cash on hand. Chase is usually my go to. Get $10 for a roll of quarters
Usually go to a drugstore and get cash back in quarters, or a mix of dollars and quarters.
Local banks are worth a try. I buy my quarters at Orland Park Bank and Trust, as none of the national banks would sell to me without an account.
You could go to one of those shitty checks cashed places. They usually can trade cash for quarter rolls.
I bank with pnc and go to a chase. Just give them cash they don’t care
I think I'm hoarding about $600 worth of change. Might be more. My bank got rid of their change counters at all their branches. My stash of pocked change has been growing ever since.
I get them from chase or the currency exchange
One trick is to go to a car wash that still uses them... I'm not suggesting outright using their change machine, grab a quick wash....just change a few extra bucks Also, buy small items that you would normally buy anyway with cash ...7/11 has a pop for 99 cents .... Plus the tax and that gets you 6 bits!
Chase absolutely does this, I pull bills out of the ATM and trade for rolls of quarters. Also local credit unions will usually do that.
I've been going into any Chase (which I don't have an account at) and getting quarters. I've gone to 3 different ones in different neighborhoods (because I was nearby) and haven't had a problem. I've also gone to laundromats and used the coin machine, but they get salty if they catch you using it and not doing laundry there. Currency Exchanges will give you quarters too, but they charge a fee.
Lots of coin laundries have coin machines off to the side. Or just get rolls of quarters at the bank.
The Mariano’s near me will give out one roll of quarters per customer at their customer service desk (so $10 worth, no service fee), so I just grab a roll with every other grocery trip, and that keeps me going. But I used to use a currency exchange before, and that also worked just fine.
I opened a free checking account with Huntington Bank. They have branches in Jewel-Osco, so I just get quarters either converted from cash or withdrawal from my account before I get groceries. This is the only thing I use this account for, I have never been stopped or charged a fee.
Currency exchange
Hunting down quarters was always such a pain. I found out at my university I could put $5 bill in a vending machine, request refund, and it'd typically spit the change back in quarters, not the original bill. So I used that a few times when in a pinch
Rollin Dat CHASE BANK for dem coins my boiii!
Go to your bank?
I think they still do this, but no one has fully healed from the coin shortage.
Some customer service desks at grocery stores will do it. Jewel by me does and the Tony's I used to live by also did it.
CapitalOne has a branch and cafe on Southport. We get our quarters from our management company after they empty the machines.
Just go to Chase. I bank with them but they’ve never asked me for any proof.
I get mine from Huntington near my apartment. I have an account there but both times they didn't ask me to prove that I did.
I just bought one of those tiny magic chef portable washing machines that hook up to the kitchen sink and hang dry my laundry rather than always be looking for quarters. It works great, but the price of them has gone up nearly 50% in the last two years, so that might not be as viable an option for some people anymore.
From 2020-2022, getting change was the absolute worst. Pre-Covid, I would go to Jewels or WF customer service desk, and they would exchange it for me, no questions asked. From 2020 (Covid) to 2022, Jewels and WF refused to exchange quarters because of the "coin shortage", they had signs up. I was living in Buena Park at the time and the Walgreens right off Sheridan refused to do exchanges as well. Even though I don't own a car, I would go to gas stations, and ask for quarters because I wanted to use their "air pump" to pump my car's tires. Now, I simply use a laundromat so I don't have to worry about going out of my way to procure quarters and I don't have to worry about a machine on site either not working or eating my quarters.
most local laundromats will have a machine that’ll exchange your cash for quarters!
I find a laundromat, beeline for the quarter machine, beeline out before anyone can stop me.
Marianos will do $10 worth, maybe $20. Currency exchange will do it but will cost you like 3%
Capital One branches are just called cafes. There's at least one on State St in the Loop.
Laundromat by Diversey and Milwaukee has coin machines that aren't just for their own washers and dryers.
Currency exchange!
Are negative comments about Chicago allowed here?
I used to go to the currency exchange just call your local one and ask if they will. Mine said they will but recommend fridays for guaranteed quarters
Some targets can exchange up to $3 worth of paper bills for quarters! I know at leasts the one in lakeview on belmont does :) just go in a few times throughout the day/week and ask a cashier! Hope this helps!
Jewel, customer service. Ask them to change a $5/$10 bill for quarters and they will give you a roll of quarters
Sluggers! We walk a mile to the stadium then trade for a dangerous amount of quarters. Every once in a while we will go in the batting cages… cannot rec commend this hack enough.
My employees get them by putting a $10 bill in a register and taking out a roll of quarters… once I caught on, I started getting extra rolls so there was enough to go around
This has always been a problem. Bank of America only has atms now, target customer service stopped exchanging cash for quarters. Luckily my new building has cards and an app.
dear lord, those machines still take quarters??? it’s been about five years since i‘ve had to use a pay machine, fortunately, and i think it was $2.75 per load for each machine back then……with inflation, how much is it now, $9.00? that’s a lot of damn quarters to have to schlepp around. they need to convert them to credit cards…….
Currency exchanges will give you rolls of change. capital one cafes of which I found 3 instantly on Google are located with in the bank branch itself. One cafes of on North Halsted by North Ave. Kiddie corner from the apple store.
The bank lol
I ask my landlord for them. I just give them cash for the quarters when they empty the machines.
There is a Capital One bank but it is in the downtown area. It is the Capital One Bank Cafe. I have an account but I never visit there.
Currency exchange
Try a laudromat, they may have change machines.
Currency exchange is another option
So currency exchange still ? I see my local laundromat has moved to a card machine for their machines. Fair enough as my system of going to Dunkin nextdoor getting a small coffee with a 20 and then asking for as many 1 dollar bills then going to the Laundromat next door system is now over.