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Portage Park

331 restaurants have held a licence here since 2002. 119 are trading today. Rent tier: Tier 3 · Emerging.

How long restaurants last here

69%
still open four years on (282 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 119 restaurants currently trading — shares are of that total, so they do not add to 100%. 22 opened in the last two years.

ConceptOpen nowShare
Restaurant (unspecified)3227%
Coffee / Cafe1815%
Italian / Pizza1210%
Mexican108%
Bakery / Dessert98%
American / Burger87%

Addresses that have turned over most

Storefronts in Portage 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
4929 W IRVING PARK RD 1ST61History
4600 W BELMONT AVE 1ST63History
4801 N AUSTIN AVE 1ST51History
4300 N MILWAUKEE AVE 141History
3938 N CICERO AVE 1ST41History
4763 - 4765 N MILWAUKEE AVE 1ST42History
4022 N MILWAUKEE AVE41History
4032 N MILWAUKEE AVE 141History

Watch Portage Park.

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