There's a Asian mall called Mitsuwa around Arlington Heights. Look up the website. There's an Asian grocery store, a travel agency, a food court, a bakery, a 100yen store (at least there used to be...), a liquor store, I think the video game/anime store/arcade's still there, book and magazine store (that also sells Asian CDs and some DVDs), and video rental store, and some smaller stores.
It's really neat! I highly suggest going there! I got the Moments CD+DVD single the day it came out there!