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Chatham

184 restaurants have held a licence here since 2002. 58 are trading today. Rent tier: Tier 4 · Value.

How long restaurants last here

54%
still open four years on (155 matured)
58%
Chicago overall
5.0 yrs
median tenure

That is 4 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 58 restaurants currently trading — shares are of that total, so they do not add to 100%. 10 opened in the last two years.

ConceptOpen nowShare
Restaurant (unspecified)1017%
American / Burger916%
Fried Chicken814%
Coffee / Cafe59%
Sandwich / Sub59%
Mexican47%

Addresses that have turned over most

Storefronts in Chatham 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
439 E 79TH ST 1ST81History
120 W 87TH ST C-463History
8635 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE 1ST51History
8239 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE 1ST51History
8154 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE 1ST41History
7901 S WENTWORTH AVE41History
9200 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE 131History
311 W 79TH ST 1ST30History

Watch Chatham.

Everything above is the record as it stands today. Get an email when a new restaurant licence appears in Chatham, 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 Chatham 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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