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North Park

180 restaurants have held a licence here since 2002. 62 are trading today. Rent tier: Tier 3 · Emerging.

How long restaurants last here

60%
still open four years on (157 matured)
58%
Chicago overall
6.0 yrs
median tenure

That is 3 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 62 restaurants currently trading — shares are of that total, so they do not add to 100%. 14 opened in the last two years.

ConceptOpen nowShare
Restaurant (unspecified)1423%
Coffee / Cafe1016%
Italian / Pizza58%
Sandwich / Sub58%
American / Burger46%
Vietnamese46%

Addresses that have turned over most

Storefronts in North 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
6320 N LINCOLN AVE 1ST71History
3401 W BRYN MAWR AVE70History
5240 N PULASKI RD61History
3334 W FOSTER AVE 1ST50History
6251 N MCCORMICK RD 1 C42History
3232 W FOSTER AVE 1ST41History
3346 W BRYN MAWR AVE 1ST41History
3352-3354 W FOSTER AVE 1 140History

Watch North Park.

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