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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 481 pharmacies and drug stores
Best pharmacies and drug stores in Chicago
The 10 most notable pharmacies and drug stores 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
Parkway Drugs, a Walgreens Rx
353 Park Ave
194 m from Glencoe, rail
listed by DAC and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.520, percentile 100 of 481
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2
Carnegie Sargent's Pharmacy and Health Center
845 N Michigan Ave
457 m from Chicago, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.519, percentile 99.79 of 481
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3
Local Health Pharmacy
2545 W Diversey Ave
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.519, percentile 99.58 of 481
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4
Oak Lawn Health Mart Pharmacy
4700 W 95th St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.519, percentile 99.38 of 481
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5
Access Community Health Pharmacy
5401 S Wentworth Ave Ste 5a1
186 m from Garfield, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.517, percentile 99.17 of 481
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6
Segreti Pharmacy
6144 Roosevelt Rd
617 m from Austin, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.513, percentile 98.96 of 481
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7
WALGREENS #16093 Pharmacy
3040 S Cicero Ave
770 m from Cicero, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.512, percentile 98.75 of 481
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Northwestern Medicine Specialty Pharmacy
676 N St Clair St Suite 560
481 m from Chicago, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.510, percentile 98.54 of 481
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9
Presence Saint Joseph Hospital Pharmacy - Chicago
2800 N Sheridan Rd
listed by BrightQuery and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.509, percentile 98.33 of 481
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10
Chicago Health Mart Pharmacy
1260 W Devon Ave
353 m from Loyola station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.496, percentile 98.13 of 481
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).