About the Chicago Laundromat Directory

What this site does

We catalogue laundry locations in Chicago, Illinois — coin-operated laundromats, self-service stores, wash-and-fold providers, dry cleaners and pickup-and-delivery services. The directory currently holds 391 locations across 24 neighborhoods. For each one we publish the business name, address, phone number and website where they are published, and the business category recorded for that location.

You can browse by neighborhood, search for the locations nearest to you, put two or three side by side in the comparison tool, and estimate a trip with the laundry cost calculator.

Who it is for

People in Chicago without a washer at home: renters in older buildings, students between leases, households sharing one basement machine, and anyone who needs a large-capacity machine for bedding. It is also useful for small businesses looking for commercial laundry or a regular pickup service.

Where our listing information comes from

• Listings are compiled from publicly available Chicago business records — name, address, phone, website and business category — then normalised into one format so neighborhoods can be compared.
• We do not visit these businesses. No listing on this site should be read as an inspection, a recommendation or a ranking.
• We do not publish opening hours, prices, machine counts or on-site facilities, because we cannot confirm them for individual locations. Pages say plainly which details are unconfirmed.
• Our records were last reviewed as a set on 2026-09-20. Individual pages note that they have not been verified by a visit or a call.
• We correct or remove a listing when an owner, manager or reader tells us something is wrong.

The full detail is on our editorial methodology page.

Where reviews and ratings come from

Every star rating and review on this site was submitted by a visitor through the form on a listing page. We do not display, average, import or republish ratings or reviews from Google, Yelp or any other platform. Visitor submissions are unverified: we cannot confirm that a reviewer used the business, and we say so on the page.

Where a listing has no submissions, we say no reviews have been submitted yet. We do not generate review summaries, pros-and-cons lists or testimonials.

How our guides are written

Our articles explain how laundry pricing, machine sizes, payment systems and service types work in Chicago, written from publicly documented information. They are not based on site visits, interviews or original research, and any price used to illustrate a calculation is an example rather than a confirmed rate at a named business.

What we do not do

• We do not invent reviews, ratings, testimonials, awards or customer quotations.
• We do not present stock illustrations as photographs of a named business.
• We do not sell placement, ranking or review removal.
• We do not claim to be affiliated with any laundromat we list.
• We do not call any laundromat the best, cheapest or cleanest in its neighborhood.

Who runs it

Chicago Laundromats is run independently and remotely, with no physical office open to the public. Email is the only contact channel, and it reaches the site operator directly at rowanblake100@gmail.com. We do not publish staff names, credentials or a business address, because doing so accurately would require information we are not making public here.

Editorial independence

Listings are not for sale. A business cannot pay to be included, to rank higher or to have a review removed. Where the site earns revenue, it is disclosed on our advertising disclosure page.

Get in touch

Own a laundromat, spotted an error, or want a location added? Use our contact page. Corrections and owner updates are reviewed before any public page changes.