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Montclare

79 restaurants have held a licence here since 2002. 24 are trading today. Rent tier: Tier 3 · Emerging.

How long restaurants last here

51%
still open four years on (68 matured)
58%
Chicago overall
4.9 yrs
median tenure

That is 6 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 24 restaurants currently trading — shares are of that total, so they do not add to 100%. 6 opened in the last two years.

ConceptOpen nowShare
Restaurant (unspecified)729%
Mexican417%
Bakery / Dessert313%
Italian / Pizza313%
Bar / Tavern313%
Fried Chicken14%

Addresses that have turned over most

Storefronts in Montclare 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
2659-2661 N HARLEM AVE41History
2627 N HARLEM AVE40History
7006 W DIVERSEY AVE41History
2651 N HARLEM AVE 1ST 265131History
6622 W FULLERTON AVE32History
2366-2370 N NEVA AVE30History
7020 W GRAND AVE31History
6748 1/2 W DIVERSEY AVE 1ST30History

Watch Montclare.

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