When it comes to physical retail stores owned and operated by the best smartphone manufacturersApple is well ahead of all its competitors here in the United States, with over 250 locations. Samsung is the furthest along, with only five stores in the United States – a dismal result compared to Apple. Google is, however, catching up with four successful stores. Unfortunately, all of these Google Store locations are on the East or West Coast, leaving many shoppers out.

Fortunately, Google is making progress here. Tomorrow, November 1, the company will launch the first Google Store in Chicagomore precisely in the suburb of Oak Brook, at 63 Oakbrook Center. This will be its fifth permanent retail store, the other four being Chelsea (Manhattan, NY), Williamsburg (Brooklyn, NY), Newbury (Boston, MA), and Mountain View (CA, right next to Google’s main headquarters ). We visited the Mountain View location last yearso take a look and see what it looks like.

Overall, Google Store Oakbrook appears to be one of the smaller stores in the family. The gallery below and the image above show that the location only has one large room and doesn’t appear to have the meeting/event spaces we’ve seen at a few other locations.

Still, the main idea of ​​the store is that you can go to a physical location to try out Google products, get devices repaired, or just get help figuring out if a Google gadget is right for you. If that’s all you’re interested in, the Oakbrook location will be perfect for you.

Google has already organized satellite events in Google Stores, notably during the launch of the new Pixel smartphones. We may see an event in Chicago in the future. In the meantime, if you’re in or around Chi-town, head over to the Oakbrook Google Store to see what it’s all about!