What are the best businesses to open in Dearborn Park?

The top businesses to open in Dearborn Park include Italian Restaurant with a ~90% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~92%, followed by Filipino Restaurant and Ukrainian Restaurant.

What businesses are most in demand in Dearborn Park?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Dearborn Park are Italian Restaurants, Filipino Restaurants, and Ukrainian Restaurants.

How much money could a business in Dearborn Park make?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, selecting one of the best locations in Dearborn Park could lead to making ~2% more than selecting an average location, and ~3% more than one of the worst locations.

Is Dearborn Park a good place to start a business?

Dearborn Park is ranked number 40 across neighborhoods in and around Chicago to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~82%. Strong business types at their best-match addresses in Dearborn Park consistently score ~2% higher than the overall neighborhood survivability average.

Business Survivability in Dearborn Park, Chicago

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Dearborn Park is an Italian Restaurant with a ~90% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•17 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: an Italian Restaurant in Dearborn Park (~90% average survival rate, ~92% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #40 across all neighborhoods in and around Chicago

Neighborhood average: ~82% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Last reviewed: May 6, 2026 by Bobby Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring

In this article:

Summary
Is Dearborn Park a good place to start a business?
How to find the best location
Best businesses to open
How much money could a business make?
What businesses should open next?
Frequently Asked Questions

Summary

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Dearborn Park is an Italian Restaurant with a ~90% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~92% chance; next is a Filipino Restaurant with a ~90% chance, followed by an Ukrainian Restaurant with a ~90% chance.

How business-friendly is Dearborn Park right now?

**Pattern match:** Dearborn Park's neighborhood signature — captured across demographic, employment, and amenity features — most closely matches **Downtown (Miami)** and **North Hi Mount (Dallas)**. The three share comparable demographic and amenity-density profiles, which helps explain why business types that succeed in those areas tend to translate to Dearborn Park.

**The pattern in Dearborn Park.** Of 93 tracked subtypes, Italian Restaurant leads at **90% average survivability** — yet within the neighborhood, sites for this subtype range **75-98%** (23-point spread). That spread is the real failure surface: pick the wrong block in Dearborn Park and a top-subtype play still scores in the bottom quartile. Meanwhile Bars are already saturated here — 2 competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

Dearborn Park earns the #40 spot in Chicago for new business survivability, with an average score of ~82% across all business types analyzed.

Strong business types at their best-match addresses in Dearborn Park consistently score ~2% higher than the overall neighborhood survivability average.
However, those same business types at the weakest addresses in Dearborn Park can score considerably below average. Even the most in-demand concept in Dearborn Park will struggle if it opens at the wrong address.
The 93.9% employment rate in Dearborn Park supports consumer spending, while a 5.5% vacancy rate reflects available storefronts — both of which shape the survivability landscape for any new business here.

Employment and vacancy figures sourced from the U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey.

How can you find the best location to open a business in Dearborn Park?

StreetSpring's model evaluates every available address in Dearborn Park for your business type, ranking them by survivability so the best storefront is always identifiable. StreetSpring's 2026 analysis identifies this area as the top location for an Italian Restaurant in Dearborn Park:

Walking the neighborhood: what to look for

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Per the 2026 StreetSpring analysis, this circle outlines the optimal area for an Italian Restaurant in Dearborn Park. These figures represent averages across a neighborhood; your specific address may score meaningfully higher or lower depending on block-level competitive conditions. StreetSpring's prediction model analyzes 100 factors across competition, spending on the specific potential business, projected revenue, projected market share, Revenue Capture Score, mobility patterns, and many more.

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Top-ranked business types for Dearborn Park

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Dearborn Park

Italian Restaurant — ~89%–~92% survivability range, with an average of ~90% across Dearborn Park.
Opening a Filipino Restaurant in Dearborn Park shows ~90% average survivability. Top locations reach ~91%; lower-end sites show ~88%.
Ukrainian Restaurant (Ranked #3): ~90% average in Dearborn Park. Best-case storefronts: ~92%. Challenging locations: ~88%.
Indonesian Restaurant is ranked #4 for top businesses to open in Dearborn Park: ~90% chance on average, best at ~92%, challenging at ~88%.
Kosher Restaurant — ~88%–~92% survivability range, with an average of ~90% across Dearborn Park.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Dearborn Park

Opening an American Restaurant in Dearborn Park shows ~90% average survivability. Top locations reach ~91%; lower-end sites show ~88%.
Pet Grooming Shop (Ranked #7): ~90% average in Dearborn Park. Best-case storefronts: ~92%. Challenging locations: ~87%.
Chicken Shop is ranked #8 for top businesses to open in Dearborn Park: ~90% chance on average, best at ~92%, challenging at ~88%.
Deli — ~88%–~91% survivability range, with an average of ~89% across Dearborn Park.
Opening a Bangladeshi Restaurant in Dearborn Park shows ~89% average survivability. Top locations reach ~92%; lower-end sites show ~88%.

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Filipino Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →

The revenue potential of a Dearborn Park location

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, identifying the optimal address for your business type in Dearborn Park could lead to you making ~2% more than if you selected an average location, and ~3% more than if you selected one of the worst locations.

How StreetSpring calculates location value

No two business types have identical location needs; survivability scores reflect these differences at the address level.
Among all variables that affect business outcomes, location has the highest predictive weight in our models.
Businesses in high-scoring locations consistently outperform those in average or low-scoring sites.
StreetSpring delivers pinpoint accuracy down to the exact storefront location.

Where the next great business in Dearborn Park should go

The top businesses to open next in Dearborn Park:

Italian Restaurants — ~90% average survival rate, up to ~92% at best locations
Filipino Restaurants — ~90% average survival rate
Ukrainian Restaurants — ~90% average survival rate

These figures represent averages across a neighborhood; your specific address may score meaningfully higher or lower depending on block-level competitive conditions. Our analysis covers every major metro in the country — 24 cities and 180 million++ consumers. Dearborn Park's employment rate (93.9%) and vacancy rate (5.5%) together define the economic context that StreetSpring's model uses to score survivability for each business type at each address. StreetSpring refreshes survivability scores every week to reflect new competition and updated spending data — see which locations in Dearborn Park are available right now and how they rank.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Here are the most common questions about opening a business in Dearborn Park.

What type of business should you rent your Dearborn Park storefront to?

According to StreetSpring's 2026 data, the strongest tenant types for a storefront in Dearborn Park are Italian Restaurants, Filipino Restaurants, and Ukrainian Restaurants.

Among all variables that affect business outcomes, location has the highest predictive weight in our models.
StreetSpring delivers pinpoint accuracy down to the exact storefront location. Run your specific address through StreetSpring to see which tenant categories give you the best odds of stable, long-term occupancy.

Should you rent your Dearborn Park storefront to an Italian Restaurant?

Yes, StreetSpring's analysis finds that an Italian Restaurant would be the best type of business to rent your storefront to, with a potential ~92% chance of lasting more than 2 years; however depending on your location, the chances could drop to a ~89% chance.

StreetSpring delivers pinpoint accuracy down to the exact storefront location.

What should I consider when opening a business in Dearborn Park?

When selecting a location in Dearborn Park it is crucial to select a location with a very high Survivability Score.

The Revenue Capture Score at a specific address explains more about likely business success than any other available metric.
StreetSpring's in-house models are continuously updated with new business outcome data to keep predictions accurate.
You can access the most up-to-date forecasts with StreetSpring for free.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.

StreetSpring's models are built from millions of real business outcomes, making predictions grounded in what actually happened. Aggregated survivability rankings for Chicago are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.

Build-out budget rules-of-thumb for this neighborhood

Consideration	Common pitfall	What to verify before signing
Lease term	Locking into 7-10 years without break clauses, then needing to relocate after year 2.	Negotiate a relocation or termination clause. Confirm assignment + sublease rights are in writing.
Foot traffic seasonality	Looking at a peak-summer Tuesday and assuming year-round volume.	Walk the block at 3 different times across 2 different weeks. Ask neighboring tenants for their slow-season % drop.
Permits & licensing	Assuming a 30-day permit timeline, hitting 90+ days, paying rent on a non-operating storefront.	Call the local zoning office before signing. Confirm your use is already permitted; if not, factor a 2-3 month variance timeline.

Full dataset for Chicago: /resources/data/chicago-survivability-scores-2026.csv — includes all business subtypes, all neighborhoods, survivability scores, and tier assignments. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Visual Data

Bubble chart of business subtypes in Chicago by survivability score and location density — Every business subtype in Chicago plotted by score vs location count — bubble size shows market depth.

Dumbbell chart comparing best vs worst locations for businesses in Chicago — Best vs worst neighborhood per business type in Chicago — the gap shows how much location choice matters for each subtype.

How we measure this: Our gradient-boosted survivability model has 100+ input features. The waterfall shows the top 6-8 contributors to a final score.

**About this neighborhood.** Dearborn Park is a residential Chicago neighborhood in South Loop. It is part of the Loop and Near South Side community areas of Chicago, and has a public park of the same name. Source: [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dearborn_Park).

**Daytime vs. resident population (Dearborn Park):** US Census LEHD workplace data shows Dearborn Park carries a **9.4× daytime/resident ratio** (a strong commercial-corridor / CBD signal), with median 1-mile workplace jobs of **142,092** (and **4,055** retail-sector jobs within that radius). A useful read on demand timing for any new storefront concept here.

Landmark anchor: Dearborn (Henry) Park anchors Dearborn Park's green-space backbone and shapes the neighborhood's foot-traffic patterns.

**Local economic context (Dearborn Park, Chicago):** Dearborn Park's ACS unemployment rate is **6.1%** (above the 24-metro neighborhood median). County-level data adds two more anchors: BLS QCEW reports Chicago-area average weekly wage of **$1,198** (below our 24-metro median), and the Census Bureau Building Permits Survey logged **5,308** new residential units in Cook County in 2025 — a rough proxy for the local growth environment a new business is opening into.

**National benchmark:** Per BLS Business Employment Dynamics (March 2025), 5-year survival rates for StreetSpring's tracked industries span **47.8-61.8%**. Restaurants — the most-studied of these — survive at **50.0%** nationally, not the often-cited "80% fail" myth. The real risk premium is at the location level, which is what StreetSpring's model isolates.

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Local Data Questions

Local-context questions, answered with neighborhood-specific numbers.

How does economic hardship in Dearborn Park compare to the metro?

8% of Dearborn Park households fall below the federal poverty line — below the Chicago metro median (12%). The poverty rate tracks the metro median; business-type fit depends more on competition and demographic specifics.

Is Dearborn Park mostly renters or owners?

33% of Dearborn Park households own their home, against 45% across the Chicago metro. A higher renter share often means more population turnover; quick-service food, fitness, and convenience tend to do well in such environments.

How does Dearborn Park's commute profile affect retail demand?

Median commute time in Dearborn Park is about 31 minutes, versus 35 minutes across the Chicago metro. Commute patterns are typical for the metro, so foot traffic timing should not be a primary differentiator.

Does Dearborn Park's education level matter for picking a business type?

ACS data shows 84% of adults in Dearborn Park with a bachelor's degree or higher, versus the metro median of 52%. A highly educated population tends to support specialty retail, premium services, and professional offices.