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Chicago RanksEst. MMXXVI
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Chicago Ranks
Salons/No. 15

Salon Buzz

River North·Hair & color·$$$$

Salon Buzz earns fifteenth on operational scale sustained by genuine quality — its client volume is a direct product of the color and cut reputation, not the other way around.

The Superior Street River North location opened in 2002, the Gold Coast Delaware original in 1998. Together the two rooms run more than 110 staff and see north of 1,500 clients per week — figures that, in a single-city market, speak to a loyalty cycle that takes years to build. The exquisite hair design positioning is not branding air: the wet-to-dry cutting range and signature color work are the reasons the numbers hold.

Conditioning treatments, nail services, and makeup extend the menu without diluting the hair identity. For the downtown-adjacent client who needs a competent, well-staffed, appointment-dense option that has been doing this since the late 1990s, Buzz is still the right call. The scale is a feature, not a compromise.

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  • Signature color
  • A dry cut
  • Highlights