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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 412 personal care and beauty shops
Best personal care and beauty shops in Chicago
The 10 most notable personal care and beauty shops in Chicago, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Lush Cosmetics Chicago
859 W Armitage Ave
152 m from Armitage station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.390, percentile 100 of 412
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2
Lush Cosmetics Old Orchard
4999 Old Orchard Shopping Ctr Ste B28
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.389, percentile 99.76 of 412
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3
Lush Cosmetics Southport
3430 N Southport Ave
82 m from Southport, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.389, percentile 99.51 of 412
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4
Lynamy Beauty Supply
4925 N Broadway # F
113 m from Argyle, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.387, percentile 99.27 of 412
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5
Loxx Hair - Chicago
433 S Dearborn St
92 m from Dearborn/Van Buren, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.387, percentile 99.03 of 412
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6
Creative Beauty Concepts
8040 Ridgeway Ave
754 m from Crawford-East Prairie, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.382, percentile 98.78 of 412
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7
Prima Lash & Beauty Supply
755 W 35th St
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.380, percentile 98.54 of 412
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8
Kali Beauty Lansing
17681 Torrence Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.372, percentile 98.3 of 412
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9
Tanisha's Beauty Supply
403 W Lincoln Hwy Unit 5
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.333, percentile 98.05 of 412
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10
Gordon Brothers Supply Inc
11849 S Michigan Ave
463 m from State Street, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.333, percentile 97.81 of 412
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).