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Albany Park

510 restaurants have held a licence here since 2002. 143 are trading today. Rent tier: Tier 3 · Emerging.

How long restaurants last here

52%
still open four years on (451 matured)
58%
Chicago overall
4.1 yrs
median tenure

That is 5 points below the citywide rate. This measures outcomes, not the quality of a place. Access to capital, insurance, lending and daytime foot traffic all move it, and none of them appear in a licence record. Read it as a description of what has happened here, not as a verdict on the neighbourhood or on anyone trading in it.

What is open here now

The 6 most common concepts among the 143 restaurants currently trading — shares are of that total, so they do not add to 100%. 29 opened in the last two years.

ConceptOpen nowShare
Restaurant (unspecified)4431%
Mexican2820%
Coffee / Cafe1813%
Bakery / Dessert1813%
Italian / Pizza53%
Sandwich / Sub43%

Addresses that have turned over most

Storefronts in Albany Park that have hosted the most separate restaurants. A high count is not a verdict on the address either — but it is the first thing worth knowing before signing one, and it is the question a broker will not raise.

AddressRestaurantsOpen now
3737 W LAWRENCE AVE170History
4445 N PULASKI RD 1ST H102History
3658 W LAWRENCE AVE81History
3532 W MONTROSE AVE70History
3246 W LAWRENCE AVE72History
3418 W MONTROSE AVE71History
4830 N PULASKI RD 1ST STE 10274History
3951 W LAWRENCE AVE GROUND70History

Watch Albany Park.

Everything above is the record as it stands today. Get an email when a new restaurant licence appears in Albany Park, and nothing at all in the weeks 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.

A neighbourhood is not an address.

Everything above describes Albany Park as a whole. The record for one storefront is usually more decisive than the average around it, and the read scores a specific concept for a specific operator against that storefront's own record.

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