# Giant Tobacco Shop, Elgin IL: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/elgin/giant-tobacco-shop-elgin-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/elgin/giant-tobacco-shop-elgin-il

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## In short

Giant Tobacco Shop is a smoke shop in Elgin, IL. Its AI Score is 24 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 | 745 E Chicago St Ste C, Elgin, IL 60120, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM |
| Phone | (224) 268-3910 |
| Rating | 4.9 across 173 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Monday |
| 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 | 745 E Chicago St Ste C, Elgin, IL 60120, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | New Tobacco and vape shop. Great selection for all your smoke and vape needs. Cigar CBD Kratom Hookah Hookah flavor Glass pipe Cigarette Vape Backpack Cones Jar Tobacco Delta 8 THC-A THC-O Delta 10 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Giant Tobacco Shop | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (224) 268-3910 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | CBD products | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Cigar | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Glass pipe | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Hookah | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Hookah flavor | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Kratom products | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Tobacco | AI guess |  |
| Services | Service | Vape products | AI guess |  |
| Links | Website | https://t.snapchat.com/fsBMrqp7 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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### Known for

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## The team

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## Visiting Giant Tobacco

Address: 745 E Chicago St Ste C, Elgin, IL 60120, USA. Phone: (224) 268-3910. Hours: Mon to Sun 9:30 AM to 9:30 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### Location info from Google Business Profile

From Google Business Profile: "New Tobacco and vape shop. Great selection for all your smoke and vape needs. Cigar CBD Kratom Hookah Hookah flavor Glass pipe Cigarette Vape Backpack Cones Jar Tobacco Delta 8 THC-A THC-O Delta 10"


### When to go

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


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Taylor Street Pizza | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Chicago St & Willard Ave | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Chicago/Willard | Transit station | 1 min walk |
| Chicago St & Willard Ave | Bus stop | 2 min walk |
| Pizza Hut | Pizza delivery | 2 min walk |
| Chicago St & Bode Rd | Bus stop | 3 min walk |


## Reputation

4.9 average across 173 reviews: Google 173. (Confirmed, read September 16, 2026.)

 (AI guess, from 173 reviews.)


### What people like

- Wide selection of vapes and cigars
- Clean and organized store
- Competitive prices
- Knowledgeable staff


### What people do not like

- Locked door with no staff present
- Unresponsive phone inquiries


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

Listed on 1 of the 18 directories we checked.

| Directory | Listed |
| --- | --- |
| Angi | Not listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Brownbook | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| DexKnows | Not listed |
| Facebook | Not listed |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Not listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Thumbtack | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Yellowbook | Not listed |
| Yellow Pages | Not listed |
| Yelp | Not listed |


## Questions people ask


### Why do people rate Giant Tobacco?


### anything I should sort out before a first visit at Giant Tobacco?


### bad experiences here, anyone?


### where does the shop post updates


### Any membership pricing at Giant Tobacco?


### torn between Giant Tobacco and Luv 2?


### what do people usually buy there


### what time does Giant Tobacco in Elgin actually open?


### Whereabouts is the shop?


### quietest day to hit Giant Tobacco?


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


### are prices in Elgin higher than everywhere else


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


### best smoke shop in Elgin


### Coffee near the shop on Chicago?


## The AI Score: 24 of 100

It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Elgin smoke shops run 16 to 35. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Giant Tobacco scores 24, below the Elgin average of 27. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Giant Tobacco |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 0 | 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. | Poor |
| 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 | 4 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 84 | 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 | 72 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Good |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 37 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 0 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |

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 Giant Tobacco |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Giant Tobacco Shop | LocalBusiness | #business | https://t.snapchat.com/fsBMrqp7 | Subject of this page |
| Elgin, Illinois | City | #city |  | City Giant 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 Elgin, linked to the lists and towns around it.


### Lists

- Best smoke shops in Elgin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/elgin/smoke-shop
- Best businesses in Elgin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/elgin


### Nearby

- /chicago: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/chicago
- /schaumburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/schaumburg
- /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:ChIJ91avUV4FD4gRA9r69-NuCJQ (accessed Sep 16, 2026)
- [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 21, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)