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Woodlawn

99 restaurants have held a licence here since 2002. 23 are trading today. Rent tier: Tier 4 · Value.

How long restaurants last here

45%
still open four years on (85 matured)
58%
Chicago overall
3.4 yrs
median tenure

That is 13 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 23 restaurants currently trading — shares are of that total, so they do not add to 100%. 9 opened in the last two years.

ConceptOpen nowShare
Restaurant (unspecified)835%
American / Burger313%
Coffee / Cafe313%
Latin / Caribbean29%
Sandwich / Sub29%
Bar / Tavern29%

Addresses that have turned over most

Storefronts in Woodlawn 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
725 E 63RD ST 1 160History
6319 S DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DR51History
6421 S DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DR 1ST A41History
6658 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE41History
501 E 61ST ST 1ST42History
447 E 63RD ST 1ST41History
6359 S DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DR 130History
6458 S COTTAGE GROVE AVE31History

Watch Woodlawn.

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