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O'Hare

216 restaurants have held a licence here since 2002. 113 are trading today. Rent tier: Tier 3 · Emerging.

How long restaurants last here

77%
still open four years on (185 matured)
58%
Chicago overall
13.8 yrs
median tenure

That is 20 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 113 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)2119%
Coffee / Cafe2018%
American / Burger1412%
Bar / Tavern1412%
Bakery / Dessert1110%
Mexican65%

Addresses that have turned over most

Storefronts in O'Hare 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
11601 W TOUHY AVE T-1 B-144636History
11601 W TOUHY AVE TERM.95History
11601 W TOUHY AVE TERMINAL 3 396History
4640 N CUMBERLAND AVE 1ST 162History
4638 N CUMBERLAND AVE51History
11601 W TOUHY AVE CONCOURSE F T 253History
11601 W TOUHY AVE ROTUNDA43History
8750 W BRYN MAWR AVE 1ST41History

Watch O'Hare.

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