# Express tobacco&Vape #2, Bensenville IL: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/bensenville/express-tobacco-and-vape-2-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/express-tobacco-and-vape-2-bensenville-il

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## In short

Express tobacco&Vape #2 is a smoke shop in Bensenville, IL. Its AI Score is 35 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 | 9 W Irving Park Rd, Bensenville, IL 60106, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sat 8 AM to 12 AM · Sun 9 AM to 9 PM |
| Phone | (630) 422-1493 |
| Rating | 4.9 across 632 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 | 9 W Irving Park Rd, Bensenville, IL 60106, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Vape, hookah , cigarettes, cigar, all smokers needs | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sat 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM · Sun 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Express tobacco&Vape #2 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (630) 422-1493 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 9:00 AM to 9:00 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 Express tobacco&Vape

Address: 9 W Irving Park Rd, Bensenville, IL 60106, USA. Phone: (630) 422-1493. Hours: Mon to Sat 8 AM to 12 AM · Sun 9 AM to 9 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "Vape, hookah , cigarettes, cigar, all smokers needs"


### When to go

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


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

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


## Reputation

4.9 average across 632 reviews: Google 632. (Confirmed, read September 16, 2026.)

Express Tobacco & Vape #2 offers a wide selection but struggles with customer service and pricing issues. (AI guess, from 632 reviews.)


### What people like

- Huge selection of vaping products
- Great prices on some items


### What people do not like

- Rude employees, including the owner
- High prices compared to competitors
- Difficult return policy and practices


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### same day slots, does that ever happen here


### Do they post anywhere?


### going rate for shops locally, any idea


### where exactly is the shop?


### opening hours at Express tobacco&Vape in Bensenville, what are they these days?


### what do people usually buy there


### which one, Express tobacco&Vape or Border Tobacco?


### Why do people rate Express tobacco&Vape?


### quietest day to hit Express tobacco&Vape?


### cheaper than Express tobacco&Vape in Bensenville without it being sketchy?


### best smoke shop in Bensenville


### membership, worth it or not


### anywhere on Irving Park to sit while I wait


### bad experiences here, anyone?


### anyone tell me what a first visit here involves


## The AI Score: 35 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. Express tobacco&Vape scores 35. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Express tobacco&Vape |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | 94 | 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 Express tobacco&Vape |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Express tobacco&Vape #2 | LocalBusiness | #business |  | Subject of this page |
| Bensenville, Illinois | City | #city |  | City Express tobacco&Vape 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:ChIJ7YF7b5CzD4gR_SP4Zb7p6jY (accessed Sep 16, 2026)