5933 W North Ave
11 restaurants have held a licence at this address since 2002. One is trading today. Austin. 60639
Every business licensed here
Oldest first, from the City of Chicago’s licence record. A closing year is the year the licence lapsed, which trails the day the door shut, often by many months. The names are the people the city lists on each licence, with the role each was filed under. A role on a filing is not a claim about who cooked, who managed, or who decided to close.
The inspections column is the City of Chicago’s food inspection file from January 2022, matched by licence number. A failed result is the city’s finding on the day of the visit and says nothing about the business since. Risk 1 to 3 is how often the city schedules inspections for a licence type, with Risk 1 the most frequent, and is not a finding about the business. A tenancy the file does not cover is shown as not covered, which is most of those that ended before 2022.
| Restaurant | Concept | Named on the licence | Years | City inspections since 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BIZMARK SUB | Sandwich / Sub | ATHANASSIOS LEMONOUDAS filed as president | 2002 – 2003 Inferred: dated from a licence that lapsed | Loading |
| BACCI PIZZERIA ON NORTH AVENUE INC. | Italian / Pizza | PASQUALE DIDIANA filed as president | 2002 – 2004 Confirmed: an inspection or the operator dated it | Loading |
| M & L CHICAGO STYLE CHEESE STEAK | American / Burger | GREGORY A MCNEAL filed as sole proprietor | 2004 – 2005 Inferred: dated from a licence that lapsed | Loading |
| PHILLY CHEESE STEAK HOUSE | American / Burger | KEVIN DUNBAR filed as secretary / president | 2006 – 2007 Inferred: dated from a licence that lapsed | Loading |
| TASTE OF JOI RESTAURANT CAFE BAKERY | Coffee / Cafe | JEANETTE LIPSCOMB filed as sole proprietor | 2010 – 2010 Confirmed: an inspection or the operator dated it | Loading |
| DJ SUB | Sandwich / Sub | MUHAMMAD AHSAN filed as sole proprietor | 2010 – 2015 Confirmed: an inspection or the operator dated it | Loading |
| DJ'S SUB | Sandwich / Sub | MAHMOOD ASHIQ filed as secretary ABDULRAFAY MAHMOOD filed as partner ALEEM UDDIN QAZI filed as president SALEEM AKHTAR filed as secretary | 2015 – 2019 Confirmed: an inspection or the operator dated it | Loading |
| BEST SUBS | Sandwich / Sub | OMER F CHEEMA filed as sole proprietor | 2019 – 2020 Confirmed: an inspection or the operator dated it | Loading |
| BEST SUBS & PIZZA | Sandwich / Sub | AMIN A CHOUDRY filed as sole proprietor | 2022 – 2023 Confirmed: an inspection or the operator dated it | Loading |
| The Natural Branches Kitchen & Restaurant LLC | Restaurant (unspecified) | Franco S Martinez filed as manager | 2024 – 2025 Confirmed: an inspection or the operator dated it | Loading |
| THE HOAGIE PLUG | Sandwich / Sub | DERRICK M COOPER filed as managing member | 2025 – open | Loading |
Turnover here, against the block and the zip
Counts from the licence record. A run is the years between a licence start and the end of that tenancy. The median run counts only tenancies that have ended; the longest single run is the one longest tenancy in the column, counted up to today if it is still open.
| This address | 5900 block of W N AVE 5 storefronts | Zip 60639 328 storefronts | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tenancies to date for the block and the zip, the median storefront | 11 | 2 | 1 |
| Median run, ended tenancies | 1.2 yrs over 10 ended | 1.3 yrs over 18 ended | 2.2 yrs over 451 ended |
| Longest single run | 5.0 yrs | 14.5 yrs | 27.6 yrs |
The block and zip columns count every restaurant storefront in the licence record, single-tenant ones included; buildings where several tenants trade at once, such as food halls, are left out of both. These are counts of what the record shows, not a verdict on the address and not a forecast: a storefront turns over for reasons the licence never states.
Watch 5933 W North Ave.
Everything above is the record as it stands today. Get an email when a new restaurant licence appears at this address, and nothing at all in the years when none does. It covers openings only: a closure takes about three years to surface fully in the public record, and we will not send an alert we cannot stand behind.
What this record does not tell you
10 tenancies here have ended, and that is a count rather than a verdict. A storefront turns over for reasons the licence record never states: a lease ran out, an operator retired, a concept was wrong for the street. Closures also take about three years to become fully visible in the record, so a tenant listed as open may already have gone.
Start years are licence dates the city filed. End years are ours. Where a row says Confirmed, an inspection or the operator dated the ending. Where it says Inferred, the licence lapsed and stayed lapsed, and we read that gap as the end: it is our reading of the paperwork, not a date anybody recorded, and the real ending is usually earlier than the year shown. Where nothing on the record dates an ending at all, the row says so instead of showing a year we cannot support.
The names come from the City of Chicago’s business owner register and say who was listed on a licence, nothing more. One person is often filed under several roles at once, a company can be listed where the register never names a person at all, and somebody named on a filing may never have set foot in the kitchen. Both datasets are public records the city publishes and keeps publishing.