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Loop

1,456 restaurants have held a licence here since 2002. 477 are trading today. Rent tier: Tier 1 · Prime.

How long restaurants last here

69%
still open four years on (1,290 matured)
58%
Chicago overall
7.8 yrs
median tenure

That is 11 points above 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 477 restaurants currently trading — shares are of that total, so they do not add to 100%. 80 opened in the last two years.

ConceptOpen nowShare
Restaurant (unspecified)12426%
Coffee / Cafe9520%
Sandwich / Sub5311%
Bakery / Dessert306%
Mexican255%
American / Burger235%

Addresses that have turned over most

Storefronts in Loop 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
100 W RANDOLPH ST LL C07290History
233 S WACKER DR 67, 66, 34, 33226History
201 N CLARK ST 2210History
233 N MICHIGAN AVE206History
77 W JACKSON BLVD140History
333 S STATE ST144History
105 W MADISON ST135History
125 S CLARK ST122History

Watch Loop.

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