# Border Tobacco and Vape, Bensenville IL: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/bensenville/border-tobacco-and-vape-bensenville-il. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-16.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/bensenville/border-tobacco-and-vape-bensenville-il

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## In short

Border Tobacco and Vape is a smoke shop in Bensenville, IL. Its AI Score is 34 of 100, which is poor.

What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Smoke shop |
| Address | 138 W Irving Park Rd, Bensenville, IL 60106, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sat 8 AM to 10 PM · Sun 9 AM to 8 PM |
| Phone | (630) 766-5060 |
| Rating | 4.2 across 149 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Sunday |
| Updated | September 16, 2026 |


## All the details

Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.

| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Location info | Address | 138 W Irving Park Rd, Bensenville, IL 60106, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | 138 W Irving Park Rd, Bensenville, IL 60106 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sat 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM · Sun 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Border Tobacco and Vape | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (630) 766-5060 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 8:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Border Tobacco

Address: 138 W Irving Park Rd, Bensenville, IL 60106, USA. Phone: (630) 766-5060. Hours: Mon to Sat 8 AM to 10 PM · Sun 9 AM to 8 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### When to go

Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Friday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Wingstop | Chicken wings restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Rose's Chinese Restaurant | Chinese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Burger King | Fast food restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Jim & Tom's Restaurant | Greek restaurant | 2 min walk |
| Subway | Sandwich shop | 2 min walk |
| York/Irving Park | Transit station | 3 min walk |


## Reputation

4.2 average across 149 reviews: Google 149. (Confirmed, read September 16, 2026.)

Border Tobacco and Vape offers a diverse product range but struggles with customer service and pricing consistency. (AI guess, from 149 reviews.)


### What people like

- Wide selection of vapes
- Best prices compared to other shops


### What people do not like

- Overpriced compared to other smoke shops
- Rude and unprofessional staff
- Inconsistent pricing practices


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### what else is on Irving Park around Border Tobacco?


### trying to avoid the rush, which day is quiet


### torn between Border Tobacco and Express tobacco&Vape?


### anything I should sort out before a first visit here?


### do regulars get anything here


### prices round here, anyone got a number


### is Bensenville expensive for this, or is it just here


### where does the shop post updates


### best smoke shop in Bensenville


### worth it or not, what do the regulars say


### does Border Tobacco ever have cancellations


### reviews all look glowing, what are the real complaints?


### what do shoppers usually buy there


### opening hours at Border Tobacco in Bensenville, what are they these days?


### Whereabouts is the shop?


## The AI Score: 34 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Bensenville smoke shops run 33 to 35. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Border Tobacco scores 34. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Border Tobacco |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | Does not apply | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. |  |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 40 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 77 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | Does not apply | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. |  |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Does not apply | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. |  |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | Does not apply | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. |  |

Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology

How AI decides what to say about a smoke shop: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business


## Entity map

Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.

| Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Border Tobacco |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Border Tobacco and Vape | LocalBusiness | #business |  | Subject of this page |
| Bensenville, Illinois | City | #city |  | City Border Tobacco is in |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |


## Topical map

Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the smoke shops in Bensenville, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best smoke shops in Bensenville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/bensenville/smoke-shop
- Best businesses in Bensenville: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/bensenville


### Nearby

- /chicago: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/chicago
- /schaumburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/schaumburg
- /elgin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/elgin
- /carol-stream: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/carol-stream
- /lombard: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/lombard
- /aurora: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/aurora


### Every list

- Every leaderboard in Illinois: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il


## References


### Sources cited

- [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJF-F5tfKzD4gRLFKEa5pJQOA (accessed Sep 16, 2026)