# Kraff Eye Institute, Chicago IL: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/chicago/kraff-eye-institute-chicago-il. Free to reuse with a link back.

By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-10-28.

Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/chicago/kraff-eye-institute-chicago-il

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## In short

Kraff Eye Institute is an eye care center in Chicago, IL. Its AI Score is 64 of 100, which is fair.

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


## Key facts

| Fact | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Type | Eye care center |
| Address | 25 E Washington St Ste 606, Chicago, IL 60602, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Fri 8 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun |
| Phone | (312) 444-1111 |
| Rating | 4.8 across 269 reviews on Google |
| Updated | October 28, 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 | 25 E Washington St Ste 606, Chicago, IL 60602, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | The Kraff Eye Institute is a leading LASIK vision correction center in Chicago, a team of experts in ophthalmology & laser vision correction surgery. The institute offers diagnostic and treatment services for a variety of eye diseases, as well as LASIK & PRK surgery, ICL, RLE, Lipiflow and Corneal Cross-Linking procedures. Dr. Colman Kraff, one of the best LASIK doctors in Chicago, has played a vital role in the development of LASER eye surgery being the first to perform: Laser Vision Correction procedure in Chicago as part of the original FDA trial in 1991, Laser Vision Correction procedure in Chicago post FDA approval, farsighted procedure in the USA on the Visx Laser, Wavefront guided treatment and iDesign treatment in the US. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Fri 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM · Sat to Sun Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Kraff Eye Institute | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (312) 444-1111 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | Closed | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Amblyopia | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Astigmatism | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Cataract | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Corneal Cross-Linking | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Corneal Cross-Linking procedures | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Corneal eye disease | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Diabetic retinopathy | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Dry eye | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Eye exams | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Glaucoma | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Graves eye disease | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | ICL | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Implantable collamer lens | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Intraocular lens implant | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Keratoconus | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Lasik | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Lasik self test | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Light adjustable lens | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Lipiflow | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Myopia | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Presbyopia | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | Prk | From their website | Business website |
| Services | Service | RLE | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Team | Dr. Colman Kraff |  | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Links | Facebook | https://facebook.com/kraffeye | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/kraffeye | AI guess | Our record |
| Links | Website | https://kraffeye.com/?utm_source=GBP&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Chicago_website | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

These are the 22 services Kraff Eye offers, with the price where we have one and where it came from.

| Service | Price | Price mark | Price evidence | Service mark |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Amblyopia |  |  |  | From their website |
| Implantable collamer lens |  |  |  | From their website |
| Intraocular lens implant |  |  |  | From their website |
| Keratoconus |  |  |  | From their website |
| LASIK |  |  |  | From their website |
| LASIK self test |  |  |  | From their website |
| Light adjustable lens |  |  |  | From their website |
| Lipiflow |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Myopia |  |  |  | From their website |
| Presbyopia |  |  |  | From their website |
| PRK |  |  |  | From their website |
| Cataract |  |  |  | From their website |
| Corneal eye disease |  |  |  | From their website |
| Diabetic retinopathy |  |  |  | From their website |
| Dry eye |  |  |  | From their website |
| Eye exams |  |  |  | From their website |
| Glaucoma |  |  |  | From their website |
| Astigmatism |  |  |  | From their website |
| Graves eye disease |  |  |  | From their website |
| RLE |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| Corneal Cross-Linking procedures |  |  |  | Confirmed |
| ICL |  |  |  | Confirmed |


### Known for

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## The team

1 person is named on this page.


### Dr. Colman Kraff

| Field | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |


## Visiting Kraff Eye

Address: 25 E Washington St Ste 606, Chicago, IL 60602, USA. Phone: (312) 444-1111. Hours: Mon to Fri 8 AM to 4:30 PM · Closed Sat to Sun. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "The Kraff Eye Institute is a leading LASIK vision correction center in Chicago, a team of experts in ophthalmology & laser vision correction surgery. The institute offers diagnostic and treatment services for a variety of eye diseases, as well as LASIK & PRK surgery, ICL, RLE, Lipiflow and Corneal Cross-Linking procedures. Dr. Colman Kraff, one of the best LASIK doctors in Chicago, has played a vital role in the development of LASER eye surgery being the first to perform: Laser Vision Correction procedure in Chicago as part of the original FDA trial in 1991, Laser Vision Correction procedure in Chicago post FDA approval, farsighted procedure in the USA on the Visx Laser, Wavefront guided treatment and iDesign treatment in the US."


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Openlands | Non-profit organization | 1 min walk |
| Museum of Illusions Chicago | Museum | 1 min walk |
| The Walnut Room | American restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Washington & State | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Marshall Field's Wholesale Store | Wholesaler | 1 min walk |
| Dunkin' | Coffee shop | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.8 average across 269 reviews: Google 269. (Confirmed, read August 4, 2026.)

Kraff Eye Institute is noted for its skilled procedures but struggles with patient communication and wait times. (AI guess, from 269 reviews.)


### What people like

- Successful LASIK and cataract surgeries
- Comfortable experience during procedures


### What people do not like

- Long waits past the appointment time
- Poor communication regarding insurance
- Unresponsive front desk staff


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

Listed on 2 of the 2 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Apple Maps | Listed |
| Yelp | Listed |


## Questions people ask


### discounts for coming back, is that a thing


### Why do people rate Kraff Eye?


### Worth the hype at Kraff Eye?


### picking between the two, is LasikPlus the safer bet?


### Anything this place is known for doing well?


### walk ins, or is it booked solid


### where does this place post updates


### best lasik surgeon in Chicago


### anywhere cheaper than Kraff Eye in Chicago that is still good?


### parking at Kraff Eye, where does everyone put the car?


### Open Saturdays here?


### who is actually holding the needle at Kraff Eye?


### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?


### are prices in Chicago higher than everywhere else


### Booking here, how does it work?


### Is numbing included here or is it extra?


### what time does Kraff Eye in Chicago actually open?


## What AI gets wrong about Kraff Eye

We ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity about Kraff Eye. These are the answers that don’t match this page.

Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 4, 2026. ChatGPT and Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 10, 2026.

| Fact | What AI says | What this page says |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Address | Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 10, 2026: 8 Vision One Lasik Center | 25 E Washington St Ste 606, Chicago, IL 60602, USA |


## The AI Score: 64 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Chicago eye care centers run 22 to 64. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Kraff Eye scores 64, above the Chicago average of 34. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Kraff Eye |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 70 | 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. | Good |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | 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 | 67 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Good |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 95 | 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 | 61 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 54 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Fair |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 63 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Fair |

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

How AI decides what to say about an eye care center: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-eye-surgery. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-eye-surgery


## 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 Kraff Eye |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kraff Eye Institute | MedicalBusiness | #business | https://kraffeye.com/?utm_source=GBP&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Chicago_website | Subject of this page |
| Dr. Colman Kraff | Person | #team-colman-kraff |  |  |
| Chicago, Illinois | City | #city |  | City Kraff Eye 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 eye care centers in Chicago, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best eye care centers in Chicago: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/chicago/eye-care-center
- Best businesses in Chicago: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/chicago


### Nearby

- /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
- /st-charles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/st-charles


### 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:ChIJTZHMAqUsDogREYVgnZ9dVoA (accessed Jul 10, 2026)
- [2] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/eye-conditions/amblyopia (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [3] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/eye-conditions/astigmatism (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [4] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/all-procedures/cataract (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [5] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/es/lasik-self-test (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [6] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/all-procedures/light-adjustable-lens (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [8] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/eye-conditions/myopia (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [9] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/eye-conditions/presbyopia (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [10] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/all-procedures/prk (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [12] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/eye-conditions/corneal-eye-disease (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [13] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/eye-conditions/diabetic-retinopathy (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [14] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/eye-conditions/dry-eye (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [15] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/all-procedures/eye-exams (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [16] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/all-procedures/glaucoma (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [17] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/eye-conditions/graves-eye-disease (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [18] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/all-procedures/implantable-collamer-lens (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [19] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/all-procedures/intraocular-lens-implant (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [20] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/eye-conditions/keratoconus (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [21] kraffeye.com, https://kraffeye.com/all-procedures/lasik (accessed Sep 18, 2026)
- [22] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Aug 4, 2026; Perplexity, read by Local AI Registry on Jul 10, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 18, 2026)