Ultimate Dry Cleaning

I brought a completely stained top here (light blue top that I wore once before it ended up covered in bright red food coloring) and they got it out and had it ready two days earlier than the expected pickup day. Top looks brand new again for $ 4.95. Will definitely be bringing all my business here.

Great place to go for dry cleaning, I had three items that needed to be dry cleaned and I was able to pick them up at a reasonable time and they were not damaged whatsoever. I was able to finish everything I needed very quickly

Having been to several cleaners I find Ultimate to be wonderful. Not only do they do a fine job with dry cleaning but they alter clothing very well. I have had many different priced pieces of clothing altered there. If it wasn’t exactly right they made the change so it was. I could not recommend they more highly!

Went here to get a bridesmaid dress altered. It was way too baggy and now it fits like a glove! Prices are very reasonable, and they had it done in a week. You can’t tell that it was altered at all. Very pleased!

Probably one of my most embarrassing moments has taken place here. While getting a bridesmaids dress fitted, I fainted :(
The employees were so nice to me! One of them ran over to Starbucks and grabbed me a bottled water and they had me sit down and relax before leaving. Not only did they end up doing a great job on the dress, but they are clearly just great people and I really appreciated their help during that super awkward moment!

Great, quick service! They text you when your pickup is ready, but are cash only (luckily there’s an ATM outside). I brought in a dress for an alteration (torn fabric) and was impressed that they were able to mend it almost seamlessly.

Been going here for over 20 years — completely and consistently satisfied. Love the family atmosphere — very professional and hard working group of lovely people.
They do alterations as well.

Great prices, great people. I had an issue with a button and they fixed it free of charge since they had repaired it awhile back.

I’ve been using Ultimate for all my dry cleaning for the past five years and have always had a great experience — clothes cleaned properly, on-​time and for a decent price.
On top of that, occasionally I will leave a $ 20 bill or something else in my pockets and they always find the item and return it! How great is that?

It’s been 6 years since I’ve lived within walking distance of Ultimate, and I still go there for my dry cleaning and alternation needs. The price for both dry cleaning and alterations are priced fairly compared to other dry cleaners. Like any other dry cleaners, be sure to point out any stains at drop off. I’ve never been disappointed with their service or anything I’ve had altered. I’m short, so I have a lot of dresses, sleeves, pants and skirts shortened. They don’t take credit cards, so be prepared to pay with cash or check (seriously, who still carries a checkbook around?!).

I’ve been going to this place for 5 years now. They will get things done quickly when I need it, they do a great job dry cleaning and a really great job tailoring — which is unique for a dry cleaner. They are also very affordable. I highly recommend this place, I used to drive about a mile to come here before I moved to the area.

I was in a total bind and Ultimate Dry Cleaning helped me out tremendously. Two tailors prior to them told me they could not let out a bridesmaids dress — I needed to let out a couple inches for it to zip up (got pregnant!). This was the only tailor that did it – and perfectly. Goes to show there ARE differences in tailors in this city and from now on I’ll only go here anytime i need a tailor. He is also VERY nice!

I’m super upset that I have to write this review after reading all of these amazing reviews. I really wanted to make this place my ‘go-​to’ dry cleaners.
This past week was my first time here. I dropped off my fiancé’s suit to get cleaned and a bridesmaid dress to get pressed. Receipt said it would be ready at Thursday at 5. We had to leave Friday morning for the wedding (i.e. with the bridesmaid dress), so we thought it’d just be easiest to swing by there on our way out of town.
I walk in Friday morning, and they can’t find my bridesmaid dress. Anywhere. They said they send out clothes to be pressed and do not do it in-​house. Keep in mind that they had between Thursday at 5 PM — Friday 10 AM to inform me that they can’t find the dress. After 30 minutes of them looking around the store, them calling their driver, and calling the company that actually presses it, they still can’t find it. Introducing me freaking out in a dry cleaner. We are now running late — I’d be damned to be late to the rehearsal because of their mistake.
I then looked up and saw my garmet bag that I dropped off my dress in. I said «that is my garmet bag right there — is there any chance it could be in there?» Fancy that, it was in there the whole time. They never sent it out to be pressed. He said «give me 10 minutes, I can steam it.» Obviously this would look nowhere near as good as it would pressed, but I suppose it was better than nothing.
It was then what shocked me the most.
He rang me up for the suit, and had the audacity to charge me the full pressing price. I completely understand that it was literally like $ 5.00, but really?! I called him out on it, and he said «ugh ok, $ 10 for everything.»
Stay away. There are plenty of wonderful dry cleaners in this city.

This is hands down the best alterations place I have ever been to. I once took a dress into another dry cleaner/​alteration place, stupidly thinking that the alterations were not going to be very difficult. The dress came back a mess — I took it to the Ultimate, and they were able to undo the damage, and put the proper alterations in place. Another time, a friend with a totally different body shape give me a dress that I loved — I took it there and asked them to see what they could do with it, knowing that the structured bodice of the dress would probably be a problem. The dress now looks like it was custom-​made for me. I’ve never gotten anything cleaned there, so I can’t comment on that — but I’ll never use another place for alterations.

Great cleaner and they do wonderful alterations! We’ve taken skirts, ripped leather jackets, jeans to have the pockets sewn shut and trimmed out, and pants to be hemmed. Everything they’ve altered is top notch work and the turnaround is less than one week. Reasonably priced. Located across the steer from Starbucks in the corner at Racine.

They do great alterations and have really saved us a couple times with the quick turn around time. They’ve been so good that I’m reversing my earlier review. We gave them a second chance, and I’m glad we did. I still don’t like that they only take cash, but they are worth that small inconvenience.

Last year other places were going to charge me triple to make the alterations I needed for my bridesmaid dress. They did an amazing job in less than a week. I was beyond pleased. Nice staff and awesome workmanship! It may not be a fancy facility but the guys do top notch work.

Well, everyone there is very nice and they were on time with the alterations that I needed for a bridesmaid gown. However. They didn’t make the alterations we discussed. I needed the dress let out. They were going to take fabric from the bottom of the dress to let the dress out. They didn’t. They let it out with the spare fabric in the seams but this wasn’t enough and the dress was still too small. For some reason they still too fabric from the bottom of the dress, even though they didn’t use it, and they took far more than we discussed. So this dress was not only too small but also too short and I looked ridiculous the entire night. In my mind I thought ‘well I can’t possibly look that bad’ until I saw the photos this morning. I would not recommend them for anything special occasion related, no matter what the 5 star reviews say. It isn’t worth the risk.

I have lived in Logan Square, Lincoln Square, and Lincoln Park and this is the best dry cleaner I have found in any of the neighborhoods.
Positives:
1)Fairly priced, relatively low in cost
2)Dry clean retains colors and doesnt fade like i have experienced with other dc’s
3)Offer Laundry for $ 1/​lb. This is actually very affordable at about $ 30/​month. They wash, iron, and fold all laundry.
4)Friendly. I came about 20 min late past when they closed and the guy let me in. Plus he let me have a free laundry bag.
5)They have changing rooms for alterations. No standing awkwardly behind a make shift changing room/​curtain.
6)They have the digital system so you dont need to save your ticket.
Negatives:
1)Dont accept credit cards.
2)Sometimes hard to find parking.

No. no. no.
I should be able to rate them with negative stars. Why? They managed to ruin my Unilocal event before I was even able to attend. That’s right, I took some clothes here for the White Hot Nights event in Naperville and wow… what a terrible job. I want to say they didn’t do anything at all, but I can’t…because the clothes are actually more wrinkled then when I took them in (so, nothing would have been an improvement over what ever took place). It seems I basically paid them $ 7.50 to ball them up and place them on one of their hangers. Sweet.
Now I don’t even have enough time to go somewhere else and have them do a proper job. So, what has two thumbs and will look like he slept in his clothes the night before? THIS GUY!
Don’t worry, Ultimate Dry Cleaners, I saved two other fingers just for you.
F*ck this place.