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Uptown

415 restaurants have held a licence here since 2002. 147 are trading today. Rent tier: Tier 2 · Strong.

How long restaurants last here

63%
still open four years on (363 matured)
58%
Chicago overall
6.4 yrs
median tenure

That is 5 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 147 restaurants currently trading — shares are of that total, so they do not add to 100%. 20 opened in the last two years.

ConceptOpen nowShare
Restaurant (unspecified)4531%
Coffee / Cafe2316%
Bakery / Dessert117%
Mexican96%
Sandwich / Sub85%
Bar / Tavern75%

Addresses that have turned over most

Storefronts in Uptown 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
4925 N BROADWAY E82History
1007 W ARGYLE ST71History
1002 W ARGYLE ST51History
4641 N CLARK ST51History
1010 W ARGYLE ST 1ST51History
5004 N SHERIDAN RD 151History
4429 N BROADWAY51History
1129 W ARGYLE ST51History

Watch Uptown.

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