Sunglasses in Chicago, IL

Protect Your Eyes from UV Rays in Style with Sunglasses
at Big City Optical

Sunglasses are about more than looking cool — they are crucial tools for protecting your eyes and ensuring your long-term eye health. Big City Optical offers a huge variety of specialty prescription lenses and frames for anyone looking for sunglasses in Chicago. When it comes to eyewear, we understand that both fashion and function are essential.

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Why Are Sunglasses Important?

Most people understand that UV rays damage skin cells. However, they are also harmful to the cornea, lens, retina, and other parts of the eye. It’s also important to know that shade can protect your skin, but it doesn’t protect your eyes. The only thing that can protect your eyes are sunglasses, so it’s important to have a pair available to help you see clearly when it’s bright outside.

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Our No-Worries Guarantee Makes It Easy to Protect Your Eyes

Each pair of frames we sell comes with a complementary one-year warranty, so you can rest easy knowing that if anything goes wrong, we’ll have you covered. We also repair frames and glasses, even if the pair was purchased somewhere else. Bring your eyewear to one of our friendly neighborhood shops and we will fix it!

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Brands You Love, Designers You Need to See

Our optical shop offers a huge variety of indie and designer brands that effectively combine fashion and function. Pick from the hottest trending works by trusted names like Paul Smith, PRADA, Gucci®, m.alexander, and Nike — or browse our unique, lesser-known frames. Big City Optical hand-picks its wide selection to ensure that our inventory’s variety will guarantee something for everyone.

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We’ll Guide You Through Our Selection of Sunglasses

The frame selection process is an important one, because glasses are often worn for years, and they say a lot about your personality. Our huge inventory selection of over 700 frames includes a wide array of trending designs in a variety of colors, shapes, and styles. Our opticians are experts at helping clients pick out their new look by accounting for their personality, sense of style, facial structure, and individual vision needs.

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Sunglasses selection at Big City Optical

Why Choose Us?

Big City Optical has a trusted team of extremely knowledgeable optical experts who will help you protect your eyes from the sun’s UV rays. We will take our time to learn about you, so that the pair we help you pick ensures clear vision and showcases your unique style. Additionally, we can adapt any pair of sunglasses to meet your lifestyle needs or existing eye conditions with our selection of specialty lenses. Book an appointment and keep your eyes protected today!

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Annie Zou

2023-10-04

Needed to adjust my new glasses purchased somewhere else, and found this place. The guy who greeted me was super nice and he was able to help me adjust. I didn’t feel any dizziness after the adjustment. Highly recommend!

Hailee Talbot

2023-10-01

The staff here are so kind!! I came to get the nose pieces on my sunglasses fixed and they were so quick and accommodating. Highly recommend!

Charma Dudley

2023-09-13

I had a wonderful experience. Everyone was very helpful/professional!

Colby Brumit

2023-09-08

Had an eye exam and ordered new glasses as a first-time patient. Check-in, exam, and ordering all went flawlessly. Staff and doctor were very friendly. Loved that I did not need to have my pupils dilated! David recommended some great frames. Will definitely go back for my next exam.

Limor Gildenblatt

2023-09-05

I went to Big City Optical the other week and wanted to give a shout out to AJ! My youngest son snapped off a piece of my oldest son's glasses and he was able to put it back together and quickly. He was friendly and professional--definitely an asset to this place! Thank you AJ!!!

Jordan Maure

2023-09-01

Lost one of the screws in my glasses while cleaning them. All of the workers were so kind and answered any questions I had. Thank you so much! We will definitely continue going here!

Ryne Bennett

2023-08-30

I called and spoke to Ray at this location. I was calling because I was ordering a pair of prescription sunglasses and needed clarification on my prescription results and whatnot. She was extremely helpful during my interaction. She provided me what I needed on my call, but I had to call back for an additional question. Where I was expecting a level of annoyance for me to call right back, she was still extremely helpful and patient and provided me with all the information I needed. I really appreciated her professionalism and willingness to assist me.

Alex Slaughter

2023-08-29

I had a great, speedy experience with Big City Optical! The office is a great space and I was in and out within 30 minutes. AJ helped me out and did an excellent job. 10/10 recommend!

West Coast Melting Pot

2023-08-12

The staff is fabulous, they were so helpful and patient because I am obnoxiously fussy when it comes to my eyewear but it's difficult for me to see you when I don't have my glasses on. I left feeling confident that the staff helped me choose the frames that best suited my face without pushing expensive options. They genuinely took the time to help me find the frames that I like that we're also complementary to my Facial features. The selection was stellar, and the frames that are made it and house where affordable and stylish. I also had an eye exam and this was the first time I had an exam with such modern equipment. It was lovely, not having that puff of ere affordable and stylish. I also had an eye exam and this was the first time I had an exam with such modern equipment. It was lovely, not having that puff of air blow into my eye.