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South Shore

214 restaurants have held a licence here since 2002. 54 are trading today. Rent tier: Tier 4 · Value.

How long restaurants last here

52%
still open four years on (196 matured)
58%
Chicago overall
4.0 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 54 restaurants currently trading — shares are of that total, so they do not add to 100%. 11 opened in the last two years.

ConceptOpen nowShare
Restaurant (unspecified)1731%
Fried Chicken713%
Coffee / Cafe713%
Sandwich / Sub611%
Chinese59%
American / Burger47%

Addresses that have turned over most

Storefronts in South Shore 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
2101 E 71ST ST 1ST I105History
2247 E 71ST ST61History
1914 E 79TH ST61History
1948 E 79TH ST60History
2137 E 75TH ST50History
2126 E 71ST ST 1ST50History
7114 S YATES BLVD51History
1652 E 79TH ST 140History

Watch South Shore.

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