Coffee near K&M express hookah on Elmhurst?
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Smoke shop in Mt Prospect, IL
4.9 · 1,167 reviewsOpens Wednesday at 8 AMOpens Wednesday at 8 AM
K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop and Vape is located at 2362 south Elmhurst Rd in Mt prospect, IL. We are a Tobacco shop and Vaporizer store. Our products include vape juice, vapes, tobacco pipes, hookah, cigarettes , roll your own cigarettes , (and much more) at the best possible prices. We are open 7 days a week 9:00am- 10:00pm/ Friday and Saturday 9:00am-midnight Give us a call if you have any questions at (773-230-1290)
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What K&M express offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
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No code detected[Photo 4]When it's quiet, where to park, and what's nearby.
Sunday is usually the quietest day.
Busiest Friday from 1 to 7 PM.
The store is wheelchair accessible. Balkan Taste is next door for european food. Cuisine of India Restaurant is next door for Indian food.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Sep 20, 2026.
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.
Closed now. Busiest Fri, 1 to 7 PM.
What reviews, press and directories say about K&M express.
4.9from 1,167 reviews on Google
While K&M Express has a friendly atmosphere and a range of products, inconsistent customer service and product issues detract from the overall experience. Customers describe K&M Express Tobacco & Vape as a mixed experience, with some praising the friendly staff, particularly Shafi, while others report issues with customer service and product quality. The store offers a variety of products, including hookah tobacco and vapes, but complaints about unresponsive service and product exchanges are common.
Listed on 1 of the 20 directories AI reads.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
29 Mt Prospect avg
Signal and how much it countsK&M express
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K&M express, as AI sees it. Blue signals help K&M express, and red ones hold it back.
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about K&M express. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Smoke shops in Mt Prospect, IL · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 16, 2026.
Published September 16, 2026 · Updated September 16, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah. is a smoke shop in Mt Prospect, IL. Its AI Score is 26 of 100, which is poor.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Smoke shop |
| Address | 2362 Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Thu 8 AM to 11 PM · Fri to Sat 8 AM to 12 AM · Sun 9 AM to 11 PM |
| Rating | 4.9 across 1,167 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Sunday |
| Updated | September 16, 2026 |
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 | 2362 Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop and Vape is located at 2362 south Elmhurst Rd in Mt prospect, IL. We are a Tobacco shop and Vaporizer store. Our products include vape juice, vapes, tobacco pipes, hookah, cigarettes , roll your own cigarettes , (and much more) at the best possible prices. We are open 7 days a week 9:00am- 10:00pm/ Friday and Saturday 9:00am-midnight Give us a call if you have any questions at (773-230-1290) | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM · Fri to Sat 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM · Sun 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM | 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 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
Address: 2362 Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056, USA. Hours: Mon to Thu 8 AM to 11 PM · Fri to Sat 8 AM to 12 AM · Sun 9 AM to 11 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
From Google Business Profile: "K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop and Vape is located at 2362 south Elmhurst Rd in Mt prospect, IL. We are a Tobacco shop and Vaporizer store. Our products include vape juice, vapes, tobacco pipes, hookah, cigarettes , roll your own cigarettes , (and much more) at the best possible prices. We are open 7 days a week 9:00am- 10:00pm/ Friday and Saturday 9:00am-midnight Give us a call if you have any questions at (773-230-1290)"
Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Friday. From the popular times on its Google listing.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Balkan Taste | European restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Cuisine of India Restaurant | Indian restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Oakton St & Colony Dr | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Karavan Restaurant | Asian fusion restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Oakton/Elmhurst | Bus stop | 1 min walk |
| Restaurant & Grill House | Restaurant | 2 min walk |
4.9 average across 1,167 reviews: Google 1,167. (Confirmed, read September 16, 2026.)
While K&M Express has a friendly atmosphere and a range of products, inconsistent customer service and product issues detract from the overall experience. (AI guess, from 1,167 reviews.)
Listed on 1 of the 20 directories we checked.
| Directory | Listed |
|---|---|
| Angi | Not listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Brownbook | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| DexKnows | Not listed |
| Not listed | |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Not listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Not listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Thumbtack | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Yellowbook | Not listed |
| Yelp | Not listed |
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Mt Prospect smoke shops run 23 to 34. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. K&M express scores 26, below the Mt Prospect average of 29. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | K&M express |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | 20 | 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 | 91 | 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 | 66 | 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
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| Mt Prospect, Illinois | City | #city | City K&M express 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 |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the smoke shops in Mt Prospect, linked to the lists and towns around it.
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# K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah., Mt Prospect IL: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/il/mt-prospect/k-and-m-express-tobacco-and-vape-smokeshop-hookah-mt-prospect-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/mt-prospect/k-and-m-express-tobacco-and-vape-smokeshop-hookah-mt-prospect-il ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah. is a smoke shop in Mt Prospect, IL. Its AI Score is 26 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 | 2362 Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056, USA | | Hours | Mon to Thu 8 AM to 11 PM · Fri to Sat 8 AM to 12 AM · Sun 9 AM to 11 PM | | Rating | 4.9 across 1,167 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 | 2362 Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop and Vape is located at 2362 south Elmhurst Rd in Mt prospect, IL. We are a Tobacco shop and Vaporizer store. Our products include vape juice, vapes, tobacco pipes, hookah, cigarettes , roll your own cigarettes , (and much more) at the best possible prices. We are open 7 days a week 9:00am- 10:00pm/ Friday and Saturday 9:00am-midnight Give us a call if you have any questions at (773-230-1290) | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Thu 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM · Fri to Sat 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM · Sun 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM | 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 11:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices Add your services so AI can say what you offer ### Known for Share your review link so AI can say what you're known for ## The team Add your team so AI can name who works here ## Visiting K&M express Address: 2362 Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056, USA. Hours: Mon to Thu 8 AM to 11 PM · Fri to Sat 8 AM to 12 AM · Sun 9 AM to 11 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile From Google Business Profile: "K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop and Vape is located at 2362 south Elmhurst Rd in Mt prospect, IL. We are a Tobacco shop and Vaporizer store. Our products include vape juice, vapes, tobacco pipes, hookah, cigarettes , roll your own cigarettes , (and much more) at the best possible prices. We are open 7 days a week 9:00am- 10:00pm/ Friday and Saturday 9:00am-midnight Give us a call if you have any questions at (773-230-1290)" ### When to go Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Friday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Balkan Taste | European restaurant | 1 min walk | | Cuisine of India Restaurant | Indian restaurant | 1 min walk | | Oakton St & Colony Dr | Bus stop | 1 min walk | | Karavan Restaurant | Asian fusion restaurant | 1 min walk | | Oakton/Elmhurst | Bus stop | 1 min walk | | Restaurant & Grill House | Restaurant | 2 min walk | ## Reputation 4.9 average across 1,167 reviews: Google 1,167. (Confirmed, read September 16, 2026.) While K&M Express has a friendly atmosphere and a range of products, inconsistent customer service and product issues detract from the overall experience. (AI guess, from 1,167 reviews.) ### What people like - Good variety of products - Friendly staff ### What people do not like - Unresponsive customer service - Incorrect product exchanges - Long wait times ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Listed on 1 of the 20 directories we checked. | Directory | Listed | | --- | --- | | Angi | Not listed | | BBB | Not listed | | Birdeye | 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 | | Nextdoor | Not listed | | Superpages | Not listed | | Thumbtack | Not listed | | Trustpilot | Not listed | | Tupalo | Not listed | | Yellowbook | Not listed | | Yelp | Not listed | ## Questions people ask ### Coffee near K&M express hookah on Elmhurst? ### address for the shop, anyone have it? ### Are the hours on Google right for K&M express in Mt Prospect? ### what do people usually buy there ### budget options in Mt Prospect, what is decent ### genuinely, what is good about this one ### Ballpark for a visit to a shop in Mt Prospect? ### best smoke shop in Mt Prospect ### Keeping up with K&M express hookah, where do they post? ### points or member pricing at K&M express hookah, worth signing up? ### bad experiences at K&M express, anyone? ### do I need to fill anything in beforehand ### K&M express or Mag Vape? ### K&M express hookah, any chance to get in this week? ### quietest day to hit K&M express hookah? ## The AI Score: 26 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Mt Prospect smoke shops run 23 to 34. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. K&M express scores 26, below the Mt Prospect average of 29. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | K&M express | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 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 | 20 | 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 | 91 | 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 | 66 | 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 K&M express | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah. | LocalBusiness | #business | | Subject of this page | | Mt Prospect, Illinois | City | #city | | City K&M express 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 Mt Prospect, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best smoke shops in Mt Prospect: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/mt-prospect/smoke-shop - Best businesses in Mt Prospect: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/mt-prospect ### 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:ChIJMdu7kq2xD4gR8ESk8VQjsnA (accessed Sep 16, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Smoke shops in Mt Prospect, IL · Editorial</p>
<h2>K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah., Mt Prospect IL: Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 16, 2026.</p>
<p>Published September 16, 2026 · Updated September 16, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
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<section id="ai-in-short">
<h3>In short</h3>
<p>K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah. is a smoke shop in Mt Prospect, IL. Its AI Score is 26 of 100, which is poor.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
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<section id="ai-key-facts">
<h3>Key facts</h3>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Type</td><td>Smoke shop</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>2362 Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Thu 8 AM to 11 PM · Fri to Sat 8 AM to 12 AM · Sun 9 AM to 11 PM</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.9 across 1,167 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Quietest time</td><td>Sunday</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>September 16, 2026</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-all-the-details">
<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>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.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>2362 Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop and Vape is located at 2362 south Elmhurst Rd in Mt prospect, IL. We are a Tobacco shop and Vaporizer store. Our products include vape juice, vapes, tobacco pipes, hookah, cigarettes , roll your own cigarettes , (and much more) at the best possible prices. We are open 7 days a week 9:00am- 10:00pm/ Friday and Saturday 9:00am-midnight Give us a call if you have any questions at (773-230-1290)</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Thu 8:00 AM to 11:00 PM · Fri to Sat 8:00 AM to 12:00 AM · Sun 9:00 AM to 11:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah.</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>8:00 AM to 11:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>8:00 AM to 11:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>8:00 AM to 11:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>8:00 AM to 11:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>8:00 AM to 12:00 AM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>8:00 AM to 12:00 AM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>9:00 AM to 11:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<h4>Known for</h4>
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<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
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<section id="ai-visiting-k-m-express">
<h3>Visiting K&M express</h3>
<p>Address: 2362 Elmhurst Rd, Mt Prospect, IL 60056, USA. Hours: Mon to Thu 8 AM to 11 PM · Fri to Sat 8 AM to 12 AM · Sun 9 AM to 11 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>From Google Business Profile: "K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop and Vape is located at 2362 south Elmhurst Rd in Mt prospect, IL. We are a Tobacco shop and Vaporizer store. Our products include vape juice, vapes, tobacco pipes, hookah, cigarettes , roll your own cigarettes , (and much more) at the best possible prices. We are open 7 days a week 9:00am- 10:00pm/ Friday and Saturday 9:00am-midnight Give us a call if you have any questions at (773-230-1290)"</p>
<h4>When to go</h4>
<p>Quietest day: Sunday. Busiest day: Friday. From the popular times on its Google listing.</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Balkan Taste</td><td>European restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cuisine of India Restaurant</td><td>Indian restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oakton St & Colony Dr</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Karavan Restaurant</td><td>Asian fusion restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Oakton/Elmhurst</td><td>Bus stop</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Restaurant & Grill House</td><td>Restaurant</td><td>2 min walk</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.9 average across 1,167 reviews: Google 1,167. (Confirmed, read September 16, 2026.)</p>
<p>While K&M Express has a friendly atmosphere and a range of products, inconsistent customer service and product issues detract from the overall experience. (AI guess, from 1,167 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
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<li>Good variety of products</li>
<li>Friendly staff</li>
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<h4>What people do not like</h4>
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<li>Unresponsive customer service</li>
<li>Incorrect product exchanges</li>
<li>Long wait times</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
<p>Listed on 1 of the 20 directories we checked.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Directory</th><th scope="col">Listed</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Angi</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>BBB</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Birdeye</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Brownbook</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chamber of Commerce</td><td>Listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cylex</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>DexKnows</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Facebook</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Foursquare</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hotfrog</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Manta</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>MapQuest</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>MerchantCircle</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nextdoor</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Superpages</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Thumbtack</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Trustpilot</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tupalo</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Yellowbook</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Yelp</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
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</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>Coffee near K&M express hookah on Elmhurst?</h4>
<h4>address for the shop, anyone have it?</h4>
<h4>Are the hours on Google right for K&M express in Mt Prospect?</h4>
<h4>what do people usually buy there</h4>
<h4>budget options in Mt Prospect, what is decent</h4>
<h4>genuinely, what is good about this one</h4>
<h4>Ballpark for a visit to a shop in Mt Prospect?</h4>
<h4>best smoke shop in Mt Prospect</h4>
<h4>Keeping up with K&M express hookah, where do they post?</h4>
<h4>points or member pricing at K&M express hookah, worth signing up?</h4>
<h4>bad experiences at K&M express, anyone?</h4>
<h4>do I need to fill anything in beforehand</h4>
<h4>K&M express or Mag Vape?</h4>
<h4>K&M express hookah, any chance to get in this week?</h4>
<h4>quietest day to hit K&M express hookah?</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 26 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. Mt Prospect smoke shops run 23 to 34. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. K&M express scores 26, below the Mt Prospect average of 29. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">K&M express</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>Does not apply</td><td>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.</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>20</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>0</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>91</td><td>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.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>Does not apply</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>66</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td>Does not apply</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>Does not apply</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td></td></tr>
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<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>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</p>
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<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>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.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to K&M express</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>K&M express tobacco&Vape Smokeshop, hookah.</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td></td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Mt Prospect, Illinois</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City K&M express is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
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<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the smoke shops in Mt Prospect, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best smoke shops in Mt Prospect: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/mt-prospect/smoke-shop</li>
<li>Best businesses in Mt Prospect: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/mt-prospect</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/chicago: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/chicago</li>
<li>/schaumburg: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/schaumburg</li>
<li>/elgin: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/elgin</li>
<li>/carol-stream: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/carol-stream</li>
<li>/lombard: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/lombard</li>
<li>/aurora: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il/aurora</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in Illinois: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/il</li>
</ul>
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<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJMdu7kq2xD4gR8ESk8VQjsnA (accessed Sep 16, 2026)</li>
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