Thai restaurants in Chicago
54 trading today — 1% of every restaurant open in the city. 179 have held a licence here since 2002, and 11 opened in the last 24 months.
How long Thai restaurants last
Measured only on restaurants that opened long enough ago to have reached 4 years, so recent openings cannot flatter it. A rate is published only where at least 40 have.
Where Thai clusters
By community area, most open today first. Counts only — a four-year survival rate needs 40 matured restaurants and only ≈16% of these cells have that many, so the rate lives below, where it can be quoted honestly.
| Neighbourhood | Open now | Ever licensed |
|---|---|---|
| Lake ViewTier 1 · Prime | 6 | 19 |
| Lincoln SquareTier 2 · Strong | 6 | 17 |
| Albany ParkTier 3 · Emerging | 4 | 9 |
| Irving ParkTier 2 · Strong | 3 | 8 |
| EdgewaterTier 2 · Strong | 2 | 14 |
| UptownTier 2 · Strong | 1 | 12 |
| West TownTier 1 · Prime | 1 | 5 |
| North CenterTier 2 · Strong | 1 | 9 |
| West RidgeTier 3 · Emerging | 1 | 7 |
By zip code
The same cut for anyone working from an address rather than a neighbourhood name.
| Zip | Open now | Ever licensed |
|---|---|---|
| 60625 | 7 | 19 |
| 60657 | 5 | 14 |
| 60618 | 4 | 10 |
| 60646 | 4 | 6 |
| 60607 | 3 | 10 |
| 60614 | 3 | 5 |
| 60613 | 3 | 21 |
| 60610 | 2 | 8 |
| 60630 | 2 | 5 |
| 60647 | 1 | 8 |
| 60640 | 1 | 11 |
| 60642 | 1 | 5 |
Watch one neighbourhood.
This page is the whole city. Pick the area you actually care about and we will email you when a new restaurant licence appears there, and stay quiet 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.
Thinking about opening one?
This page is the record: what has been tried, where, and how long it lasted. A read scores a specific concept for a specific operator against it — including whether Thai is the strongest thing you could put in that space. Free right now, no card.
Read an address freeFrom the City of Chicago business-licence record · rebuilt August 12, 2026 · methodology