Chicago Pipe Show 2025 Events

The 2025 pipe making seminar follows in the show’s history of providing the space, pipe, tools, and instruction to help students of all experience levels to shape and finish their own pipe, from start to finish. In this year’s session attendees will be working with fraised and drilled briar bowls and pre-formed mouthpieces to make[…]

The 2025 smoking tent features a larger than the previous year. The tent will be enclosed and heated. It is the perfect place to sit back and enjoy a pipe. You’ll meet other pipe smokers there – and there is always plenty of tobacco and story sharing taking place. The entrance to the smoking tent[…]

The 2025 smoking tent features a larger than the previous year. The tent will be enclosed and heated. It is the perfect place to sit back and enjoy a pipe. You’ll meet other pipe smokers there – and there is always plenty of tobacco and story sharing taking place. The entrance to the smoking tent[…]

Neal Osborn (aka NPod101) was inducted as a Master Of Pipes at the Chicago Pipe Show in 2022. His passion includes collecting and documenting pipes and pipe smoking culture. He has traveled to many countries to photograph various aspects of the pipe smoking hobby. As a medical professional, one of his interests is in teaching[…]

A seminar by Walt Hettinger (known as DocAitch in the forums)  on the topic of 3 Axis Drilling. More details to follow.

Jamie Connelly, owner of Stem and Briar LLC since 2011 which offers a full range of services for pipe sales, repairs and rejuvenations. He will be giving a detailed walkthrough for cleaning and maintaining your pipes as well as some advanced repair and rejuvenation methods including alcohol retorting, stem polishing, pipe mud repairs, bowl coatings and general[…]

The 2025 smoking tent features a larger than the previous year. The tent will be enclosed and heated. It is the perfect place to sit back and enjoy a pipe. You’ll meet other pipe smokers there – and there is always plenty of tobacco and story sharing taking place. The entrance to the smoking tent[…]

Watch Chinese Pipe Culture & Market – Chicago Pipe Show 2024 Agenda Introduction to the panel Understanding the Chinese market for carvers Chinese Pipe Culture

National UPCA meeting – more details coming soon.

Watch Alex Florov Seminar: Freehand Discuss Forum – Chicago Pipe Show 2024 Alexey Florov was born and raised in Moscow, Russia, and has a background in working with exotic materials. His attention to even the slightest details of craftsmanship, accompanied by a skill for problem solving and hand tooling, made him a valuable asset to[…]

Peterson celebrates its 160th anniversary this year! Pete Geeks (followers of the Peterson Pipe Notes blog) and PSOI (Pipe Smokers or Ireland) will host a birthday party with Glen Whelan, Managing Director of K&P, to eat cake, smoke their favorite Petes, and share examples from their collections. This year’s focus will be the Patent era[…]

Mark Irwin  is a Doctor of Pipes and Pete Geek extraordinaire. He blogs weekly at PetersonPipeNotes.org and co-authored the definitive book on Peterson pipes as well as books on pipes in Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings, the philosophy of pipe smoking and others. His presentation “The Perfect Pipe: Peterson’s 1906 Catalog” will look at the[…]

This is the in-room experience, tickets can be purchased here. A free live streaming watch party will take place in the smoking tent. 2025 Battle of Briar – Live Stream Link (Sponsored by Missouri Meershaum)   Battle of the Briar competition: Three world class pipe makers will battle it out using identical materials and tools[…]

This is the free live streaming event that will take place in the smoking tent. 2025 Battle of Briar – Live Stream Link (Sponsored by Missouri Meershaum) Battle of the Briar competition: Three world class pipe makers will battle it out using identical materials and tools to see who can make the best briar pipe[…]

Since 2002 Jeremy Reeves has been a student of fine tobacco. Having worked as a salesperson and manager in a few tobacco shops, including Iwan Reis, and later Smokingpipes, as well as working in restaurants across the US, an opportunity arose to blend for Cornell & Diehl in 2014, shortly after the company’s merger with[…]

Watch Fred Hanna Seminar: Secrets of the Smoke Sublime: Maximizing the Pleasures of the Pipe – Chicago Pipe Show 2024 This seminar provides many amusing stories from the pipe world and from Fred’s 57 years of experience as a pipe smoker and 51 years as a collector. You will laugh. You will be amazed. You[…]

Adam J. Floyd is an active-duty Army Officer and the creative mind behind the “Get Piped” YouTube channel and the “Get Piped Podcast.” Since 2020, Adam has been creating high-quality YouTube pipe smoking content. He then expanding into the world of filmmaking in 2023. His most notable work to date is “Battle of the Briar,”[…]

The Chicagoland Pipe Collectors Club extends a warm invitation to all attendees and vendors of the Chicago Pipe Show for our exclusive appreciation event. As a heartfelt “thank you” for your participation, we’ve curated an evening of camaraderie, relaxation, and celebration. Join us in the Ventanas Room at the elegant Hyatt Regency O’Hare. This spacious[…]

The 2025 smoking tent features a larger than the previous year. The tent will be enclosed and heated. It is the perfect place to sit back and enjoy a pipe. You’ll meet other pipe smokers there – and there is always plenty of tobacco and story sharing taking place. The entrance to the smoking tent[…]

The Chicago Pipe Show Exhibition stands as the largest and most prestigious pipe exhibition in the world. This annual event attracts pipe makers, collectors, and tobacco aficionados from around the globe, offering an unparalleled showcase of craftsmanship and tradition. With over 200 tables, the exhibition features a vast array of pipes and tobaccos. Attendees can[…]

The silent auction is sponsored by the CPPC, and all proceeds aid in the funding of next year’s International Pipe and Tobacco Show. This annual event wouldn’t be possible without the generous donations from CPPC club members and vendors. All items will be supplied with bid sheets where the bidders will enter their name and[…]

The United Pipe Clubs of America (UPCA) will hold its United States Slow Smoke Championship at our show on Saturday, May 3rd 2025, at 4:30PM in the smoking tent. For registration and additional information on the contest visit www.unitedpipeclubs.org

Dino has been a member of the Chicago Pipe Club since nearly its inception in the mid 1990s and has been working at the Shows since the early 2000s. He began his interest in Sherlock Holmes around the age of 10 and began smoking a pipe at 14 years old. He will present a seminar[…]

“The Doctor of Pipes program was launched in 1998 at the Chicagoland International Pipe & Tobacciana Show when the first two awards were presented to Frank Burla and Tom Dunn. Only two awards are conferred each year, one to a member of the pipe smoking hobby, and another to an individual working within the industry. It takes[…]

This is a hands on rolling workshop led by two professional cigar rollers. A professional roller will roll your first cigar. You will roll the other 2 cigars on your own. Each attendee will walk away with 3 cigars in total. Buy your Cigar Rolling Workshop tickets here. OSCAR MANUEL ARIAS Born and raised in Santiago[…]

The Tobacco Products Association (TPA) unites everyone in the cigar and pipe tobacco industries. We encourage all business owners and enthusiasts brand owners, retailers, distributors, manufacturers, accessories companies as well as aficionados and aficionadas into our community. Become a member to learn, network, educate, and enjoy the love of the leaf. Engage with a community[…]

The 2025 smoking tent features a larger than the previous year. The tent will be enclosed and heated. It is the perfect place to sit back and enjoy a pipe. You’ll meet other pipe smokers there – and there is always plenty of tobacco and story sharing taking place. The entrance to the smoking tent[…]

The silent auction is sponsored by the CPPC, and all proceeds aid in the funding of next year’s International Pipe and Tobacco Show. This annual event wouldn’t be possible without the generous donations from CPPC club members and vendors. All items will be supplied with bid sheets where the bidders will enter their name and[…]

The Chicago Pipe Show Exhibition stands as the largest and most prestigious pipe exhibition in the world. This annual event attracts pipe makers, collectors, and tobacco aficionados from around the globe, offering an unparalleled showcase of craftsmanship and tradition. With over 200 tables, the exhibition features a vast array of pipes and tobaccos. Attendees can[…]

The United Pipe Clubs of America (UPCA) will hold its Fast Smoke competition at our show on Sunday, May 4th 2025, at 3PM in the smoking tent. For registration and additional information on the contest visit www.unitedpipeclubs.org