Chicago Flagship · 3 E. Huron St.
3 E. Huron is Northwestern Hair Restoration’s flagship clinic. It offers every clinical service the practice provides — medical hair loss treatment, non-surgical restoration, and every hair transplant we perform — and it is home to the Northwestern Hair Collaborative: the place where experts from around the world run subspecialty clinics in trichology, scalp treatments, scalp micropigmentation, hair replacement systems, functional medicine, and dermatology. No other clinic in Chicago offers that range of care under one roof.
Serving Lake County and the North Shore
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At Home Medical Treatment
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Hair Transplant
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Hair Transplant
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ACS Treatments
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ACS treatment
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At Home Medical Treatment
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ACS Treatment
Join us for a look inside Northwestern Hair Restoration’s Chicago clinic at 3 E. Huron. Explore the space where our team brings hair restoration, advanced treatments, and collaborative care together under one roof.
Vinay Rawlani is a board-certified physician trained in plastic surgery and hair restoration. He studied at the University of Chicago and Northwestern University, where he was named the Louis E. Fazen Sr. Scholar of the Feinberg School of Medicine. He is the inventor of Micro PUE®, the pioneer of ACS for hair restoration, and the artist behind Timeless Hairline and Crown Design. He is the founding physician of Northwestern Hair Restoration, a Chicago hair transplant clinic, and past president of the International Hair Institute, treating patients from around the world. He has performed over 10,000 procedures since 2009 and, for the last 5 years, has been 100% focused on hair restoration. He is now seeking to open the most comprehensive hair restoration clinic in the United States.
Vinay Rawlani is a board-certified physician trained in plastic surgery and hair restoration at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago, where he was named the Louis E. Fazen Sr. Scholar at Feinberg. He is the inventor of Micro PUE®, the pioneer of ACS, and the artist behind Timeless Hairline and Crown Design. He is the founding physician of Northwestern Hair Restoration, a Chicago hair transplant clinic, and past president of the International Hair Institute, treating patients from around the world.
Chicago is the one Northwestern Hair office where every service is available on site. The suburban offices handle consultations, follow-up, and non-surgical care. Every procedure happens here.
Non-Surgical Restoration (ACS)
ACS, developed at 3 E. Huron, for men and women. A lower-cost ACS protocol is in development.
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Hair Transplant
Every Northwestern Hair procedure, men and women, at the Northwestern Hair Transplant Center.
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Medical / At-Home Treatment
Prescriptions, labs, and scalp biopsies in the office; at-home treatment nationwide through Northwestern Access.
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Scalp Micropigmentation
Men with Michal Muszynski (Magic Ink SMP); women with Sandra Salgado (Chicago Hair Ink), using Adaptive Trichopigmentation.
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Northwestern Hair’s Chicago clinic was born out of Northwestern Specialists in Plastic Surgery on the Northwestern Medicine campus, and Chicago has been the practice’s center for innovation, collaboration, and growth ever since. In October 2026 we launched an initiative built to make Northwestern Hair Restoration the most comprehensive hair loss clinic in the U.S.: a clinic where hair professionals from around the world come to see patients at 3 E. Huron, giving our patients access to nearly every specialty in hair loss:
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Business partners for more than 30 years. Both started as master hairstylists and recognized the need for professional women’s hair loss care before most of the industry. They are not medical providers. Their work covers the environmental, nutritional, and scalp-health factors a physician’s workup may not pick up, and it is often the answer when a doctor finds no medical cause.
What they provide: A course of scalp treatments and products for sebum control and inflammation, with tools to assess scalp and hair health. Chanel is a master of hair replacement systems, working with CNC by Cesare Ragazzi Laboratories — 3D-scanned, hand-made systems matched exactly to the patient’s hair, worn glue-on, clip-on, or daily.
What we collaborate on: Scalp treatment before a transplant when a patient has excess sebum or dandruff; and when donor supply is limited, planning together where grafts go and where a hair system will do more.
Business partners for more than 30 years. Both started as master hairstylists and recognized the need for professional women’s hair loss care before most of the industry. They are not medical providers. Their work covers the environmental, nutritional, and scalp-health factors a physician’s workup may not pick up, and it is often the answer when a doctor finds no medical cause.
What they provide: A course of scalp treatments and products for sebum control and inflammation, with tools to assess scalp and hair health. Chanel is a master of hair replacement systems, working with CNC by Cesare Ragazzi Laboratories — 3D-scanned, hand-made systems matched exactly to the patient’s hair, worn glue-on, clip-on, or daily.
What we collaborate on: Scalp treatment before a transplant when a patient has excess sebum or dandruff; and when donor supply is limited, planning together where grafts go and where a hair system will do more.
Master Scalp Micropigmentation Practitioner and founder of Magic Ink SMP in Winnetka. Fourteen years in the field, more than 10,000 sessions, more than 3,500 patients, and the Meeting of the Minds award. He teaches SMP internationally, and patients travel to Winnetka from across the country for his work.
What they provide: SMP for men: a shaved look with the appearance of stubble across the top; added visual density where dark hair contrasts with a visible scalp; correction of FUT (strip) scars so hair can be worn short; and added density in an FUE donor site where extraction has left thinning or patchiness. SMP is long-lasting, with periodic touch-ups.
What we collaborate on: Donor-site planning before and after FUE, and the development of Adaptive Trichopigmentation with Dr. Rawlani.
Fifteen years in SMP, and formerly Northwestern Hair’s consultant for women’s hair loss. Her work starts from a fact the field overlooked: SMP designed for men should not be applied directly to women. Women may not want permanence in the part line when more loss is expected, may not accept single-carbon black pigment, and will trade more maintenance for a natural look at the hairline, part, and crown.
What they provide: Adaptive Trichopigmentation (ATP) for women: pigment placed more superficially than SMP, so it is semi-permanent and exfoliates over months rather than lasting for decades; color-matched pigments instead of black, which do not discolor over time; maintenance on the schedule women already keep for color or extensions.
What we collaborate on: Developing ATP with Dr. Rawlani, and mapping pigmentation against the future transplant work a woman’s case may need.
Functional medicine, focused on the hormonal side of hair loss — the cause of more than 90% of hair loss in men and the most common cause in women. In men, the rise in testosterone supplementation is driving newly accelerated hair loss that can be minimized with proper hormone management. In women, the drop in estrogen and progesterone after menopause gives testosterone more access to the follicle and produces female pattern hair loss, the most common type of hair loss in women.
What they provide: Hormone evaluation and management, including whether hormone therapy is appropriate for a given patient.
What we collaborate on: Hormone workup alongside medical, non-surgical, and surgical treatment, so the cause is treated and not only the result.
Most dermatology practices stop at first-line medications for hair loss, because results take months and the advanced treatments take time. Dr. Kiracofe’s practice is dedicated to hair loss. She does the full workup for dermatologic causes — a smaller share of hair loss, but real conditions that need real treatment — and spends the time with the patient.
What they provide: Dermatologic diagnosis and treatment of hair loss. Patients are seen at her clinic in the West Loop.
What we collaborate on: Referral for scarring and inflammatory hair loss, and shared management of patients whose diagnosis needs both a dermatologist and a hair restoration surgeon.
It is a counterintuitive move. The people we invited in could be seen as competitors. We see them as collaborators in two ways:
More options, and the ones that fit a given patient best.
Understanding their craft advances ours.
We have not seen a clinic like it in the United States. We traveled to clinics around the world to find models worth bringing to Chicago and took the best parts of each.
Northwestern Hair does not employ these professionals. Each of them built a credible practice on their own. They practice in our space at no charge and with no financial relationship to Northwestern Hair, and Dr. Rawlani practices in theirs about one day a week — that is how the Deerfield, Winnetka, and Clarendon Hills offices work. They make their own recommendations to our patients, without direction from us, and then work with the group on the plan and on research.
The collaborators came first; the building came second. We did not commit to a second floor at 3 E. Huron until we saw what this group could do together. It opens in 2027.
Art Hairline and crown design is built on art and on experience with the individual. The design process happens in the original 1950 barbershop we maintain on the mezzanine, where the patient looks at how the hair looked in the past, how it looks now, and where it is headed. Dr. Rawlani’s own artwork [medium: paintings? drawings?] hangs throughout the clinic.
Science Hairline and crown design is built on art and on experience with the individual. The design process happens in the original 1950 barbershop we maintain on the mezzanine, where the patient looks at how the hair looked in the past, how it looks now, and where it is headed. Dr. Rawlani’s own artwork [medium: paintings? drawings?] hangs throughout the clinic.
Innovation Hairline and crown design is built on art and on experience with the individual. The design process happens in the original 1950 barbershop we maintain on the mezzanine, where the patient looks at how the hair looked in the past, how it looks now, and where it is headed. Dr. Rawlani’s own artwork [medium: paintings? drawings?] hangs throughout the clinic.
Built like a home Hairline and crown design is built on art and on experience with the individual. The design process happens in the original 1950 barbershop we maintain on the mezzanine, where the patient looks at how the hair looked in the past, how it looks now, and where it is headed. Dr. Rawlani’s own artwork [medium: paintings? drawings?] hangs throughout the clinic.
Northwestern Hair Restoration was born at Northwestern Specialists in Plastic Surgery, in the outpatient building on the Northwestern Medicine campus at 676 N. St. Clair St., three blocks from the current office. Drs. Clark Schierle and Neil Fine developed the practice; Dr. Vinay Rawlani joined several years later. A practice that had treated women began treating men, and men make decisions differently — the program did not fit a plastic surgery practice’s model. Rather than end it, Dr. Rawlani asked to make it his practice, after having a hair transplant himself.
He practiced on the Northwestern campus for five years. In 2021 the clinic moved three blocks to 3 E. Huron, because a hospital system is built for insurance-based care and prices a cash-pay procedure higher than it needs to be; a private clinic let the practice lower the price so more patients could afford it. The clinic is still staffed by Northwestern Specialists in Plastic Surgery, Dr. Rawlani works with that office daily, and for Northwestern patients, records and lab results come straight to us.
3 E. Huron has its own history. The mezzanine was one of Chicago’s original barbershops, opened in 1950, and the original barber poles are still outside. When Northwestern Hair took two-thirds of the floor, it kept the barbershop in the other third, in its original 1950 condition, for what it represents about the roots of our field and because the design process belongs in a barber’s chair. The memorabilia stayed: front pages from the JFK assassination (November 1963) and the moon landing (July 1969), items from the Titanic, and decades of collected pieces. Ron Edwards cuts hair there every day. This floor is also where Micro PUE® and ACS were developed.
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I went to Northwestern Hair for my hair transplant and was very impressed.
The entire process from scheduling my consultation to my follow up visit was much smoother than I expected.
Dr. Rawlani was excellent. He was very accessible, knowledgeable and down to earth.
It was clear from my other consultations that Northwestern Hair was the most competent hair transplant team in the city.
I could not be any happier with my results. I look very natural. I’ve shown my results to a lot of people including a few hair transplant surgeons. No one could tell.
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I went to Northwestern Hair for my hair transplant and was very impressed.
The entire process from scheduling my consultation to my follow up visit was much smoother than I expected.
Dr. Rawlani was excellent. He was very accessible, knowledgeable and down to earth.
It was clear from my other consultations that Northwestern Hair was the most competent hair transplant team in the city.
I could not be any happier with my results. I look very natural. I’ve shown my results to a lot of people including a few hair transplant surgeons. No one could tell.
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I went to Northwestern Hair for my hair transplant and was very impressed.
The entire process from scheduling my consultation to my follow up visit was much smoother than I expected.
Dr. Rawlani was excellent. He was very accessible, knowledgeable and down to earth.
It was clear from my other consultations that Northwestern Hair was the most competent hair transplant team in the city.
I could not be any happier with my results. I look very natural. I’ve shown my results to a lot of people including a few hair transplant surgeons. No one could tell.
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Address
3 E Huron Street, Mezzanine Floor,
Chicago, IL 60611
Find Us
Take the elevator to the Mezzanine.
Dr. Rawlani meets patients at the elevator.
Hours
Mon–Fri 10:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Phone and Text
Texting is the fastest way to reach the team
Parking
Street parking nearby; the nearest garage is One West Superior.
Transit
Red Line Chicago and Grand stations are each about two blocks away. Michigan Avenue is two blocks east.
Airports
30–45 minutes from O’Hare,
Midway, and the private airports.
Hotel
Eurostars Magnificent Mile,
across the street at 660 N. State St.
All Northwestern Hair appointments at the Winnetka clinic are by appointment and you may schedule directly through the link above. For patients who prefer to start virtually, Northwestern Access offers an initial online evaluation appropriate for early-stage cases.
The whole trip fits in three days.
In-person evaluation & preparation
Your procedure
Quick follow-up visit, then home
30–45 minutes from O’Hare, Midway, and private airports
Hotel reservations at the Eurostars Michigan Avenue — a 4.5-star hotel immediately across from the clinic
Book a consultation at 3 E. Huron, or start with a free phone call. If a suburban office is closer, book at Deerfield, Winnetka, or Clarendon Hills; your plan travels with you, and your procedure happens here.
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About hair transplant clinics in Chicago
Yes. Every Micro PUE®, No-Touch FUE, Discreet PUE®, and Same Day Hair™ procedure is performed at the Northwestern Hair Transplant Center at 3 E. Huron. Consultations and follow-up visits can happen at any of the four offices.
The Mezzanine Floor. Take the elevator, and Dr. Rawlani will meet you there.
It helps. The practice started at Northwestern Specialists in Plastic Surgery on the Northwestern campus and is still staffed by them. Your records and lab results come straight to us, and referrals to Northwestern specialists work the way they always have.
No. They run independent practices and are invited to see patients at 3 E. Huron, with no financial relationship to Northwestern Hair. Your plan still starts with Dr. Rawlani, and every appointment is booked through northwesternhairlossclinic.com.
Yes. Ron Edwards runs a full barbershop on the mezzanine with its own street entrance, open to the public. For Northwestern Hair patients, he also does hair prep before a procedure and the style tune-up afterward.
No ranking of Chicago clinics by results exists, and “best” means something different for a hairline, a crown, or a woman’s diffuse thinning. What you can verify: who leads the procedure, whether the team is permanent, and whether results are shown with graft counts and dates. All three are on this page, and every case in the before-and-after gallery lists its graft count and timing.
Ask three questions at the consultation. Who leads the procedure from start to finish? Who will be in the room? Will I get the graft count in writing before I pay a deposit? Then compare the answers across clinics.
Any licensed physician can legally perform one, which is why the training matters. Dr. Rawlani is a board-certified physician trained in plastic surgery at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago and has performed grafting procedures since 2009.
Pricing is per graft and the same at every Northwestern Hair office, with the graft count confirmed in writing before you schedule. The pricing page (/hair-transplant-cost-chicago/) lists the per-graft rate and typical totals; the graft calculator (/hair-transplant-graft-calculator/) estimates your count.
If you have decided on Turkey, we will introduce you to Dr. Ardic and provide your post-operative care in Chicago, for a flat $1,000. If you are deciding, book a consultation and compare the plans.
$100. It is applied to any treatment you choose, or refunded on request. If you are not ready to book, a team member will do a free phone consultation first.
Street parking nearby, and the One West Superior garage one block away.
The second floor of 3 E. Huron opens with a new operating room and space for the Collaborative’s specialists to see patients on their own schedule. The barbershop and the original operating room stay on the mezzanine. The address and phone number stay the same.
