Business Survivability in East Chatham, Chicago

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in East Chatham is a Kosher Restaurant with a ~82% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

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Quick Summary

  • Survivability Score: the projected chance a business type lasts two or more years at a specific address
  • Best business: a Kosher Restaurant in East Chatham (~82% average survival rate, ~84% at best locations)
  • Neighborhood rank: #70 across all neighborhoods in and around Chicago
  • Neighborhood average: ~80% two-year survival across all business types
  • Coverage: This ranking carries one row per business type and neighborhood. Its score is the projected chance of lasting two or more years, averaged across the price points StreetSpring scores separately in the tool (most types have 5). The 10 business types here are base types; the tool offers 500+ business types, counting each type at each of its price points.
  • Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data
  • Detailed methodology

Last reviewed: September 2026 by Robert Koons, Founder & CEO, StreetSpring

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Summary

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in East Chatham is a Kosher Restaurant with a ~82% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~84% chance; next is an Ukrainian Restaurant with a 81.51% chance, followed by a Pet Grooming Shop with a 81.47% chance.

Is East Chatham a good place to start a business?

Among all neighborhoods in and around Chicago, East Chatham ranks #70 for business survivability, with an average ~80% chance of lasting two or more years.

  • Top-performing business types at the best addresses in East Chatham show a ~2% survival rate advantage over the neighborhood average.
  • Yet even the strongest business types in East Chatham see survivability scores drop significantly at the worst addresses. No business type is immune to the consequences of poor location selection within this neighborhood.
  • The 85.2% employment rate in East Chatham supports consumer spending, while a 12.7% 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 East Chatham?

With StreetSpring, location selection in East Chatham moves from guesswork to a precise, address-level survivability score for any business type you're considering. This is the address StreetSpring's 2026 analysis recommends most strongly for a Kosher Restaurant in East Chatham:

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According to StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, this circle outlines the best area for a Kosher Restaurant in East Chatham. However, individual locations vary widely, and even in lower-scoring neighborhoods there are pockets that perform exceptionally well. StreetSpring's prediction model analyzes hundreds of 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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What are the best businesses to open in East Chatham?

#Business typeChance of lasting 2+ years
1Kosher Restaurant81.61%
2Ukrainian Restaurant81.51%
3Pet Grooming Shop81.47%
4Filipino Restaurant81.45%
5Italian Restaurant81.44%
6Chicken Shop81.43%
7Singaporean Restaurant81.28%
8Indonesian Restaurant81.26%
9Brazilian Restaurant81.24%
10Taiwanese Restaurant81.23%

#1-5: Highest Survivability in East Chatham

  1. Kosher Restaurant is ranked #1 for top businesses to open in East Chatham: 81.61% chance on average, best at ~84%, challenging at ~73%.
  2. Ukrainian Restaurant — ~72%–~84% survivability range, with an average of 81.51% across East Chatham.
  3. Opening a Pet Grooming Shop in East Chatham shows 81.47% average survivability. Top locations reach ~84%; lower-end sites show ~73%.
  4. Filipino Restaurant (Ranked #4): 81.45% average in East Chatham. Best-case storefronts: ~84%. Challenging locations: ~72%.
  5. Italian Restaurant is ranked #5 for top businesses to open in East Chatham: 81.44% chance on average, best at ~84%, challenging at ~73%.

#6-10: Strong Performers in East Chatham

  1. Chicken Shop — ~73%–~85% survivability range, with an average of 81.43% across East Chatham.
  2. Opening a Singaporean Restaurant in East Chatham shows 81.28% average survivability. Top locations reach ~84%; lower-end sites show ~73%.
  3. Indonesian Restaurant (Ranked #8): 81.26% average in East Chatham. Best-case storefronts: ~84%. Challenging locations: ~73%.
  4. Brazilian Restaurant is ranked #9 for top businesses to open in East Chatham: 81.24% chance on average, best at ~84%, challenging at ~72%.
  5. Taiwanese Restaurant — ~72%–~84% survivability range, with an average of 81.23% across East Chatham.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

How much money could a business in East Chatham make?

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, choosing a high-performing site for your concept in East Chatham could lead to you making ~2% more than if you selected an average location, and ~5% more than if you selected one of the worst locations.

How StreetSpring calculates location value

  • The right address for one business type may be the wrong one for another — always evaluate fit for your specific concept.
  • Every site-selection decision starts and ends with location — it outweighs concept, brand, and execution combined.
  • Maximizing your Survivability Score is the most reliable path to profitability.
  • StreetSpring's precision goes beyond the neighborhood — it scores survivability at the exact address for every major brick-and-mortar business category.

What businesses should open next in East Chatham?

The top businesses to open next in East Chatham:

  • Kosher Restaurants — 82% on average and 84% at the best address
  • Ukrainian Restaurants — 81.51% average survival rate
  • Pet Grooming Shops — 81.47% average survival rate

However, individual locations vary widely, and even in lower-scoring neighborhoods there are pockets that perform exceptionally well. The model draws from 100+ location-specific factors to generate each survivability score. East Chatham's combination of 85.2% employment and 12.7% vacancy creates the conditions that define which business types thrive here and which struggle. Survivability scores are recalculated weekly as new competitors open and spending patterns shift — visit StreetSpring to see the current score for any open location in East Chatham right now. StreetSpring scores 500+ business types: 153 base business types, most of them at 5 price points, which is 569 type-and-price combinations you can choose in the tool.

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Visual Data

radar chart of Chicago business survivability.
StreetSpring survivability data — radar view of Chicago.
Dumbbell chart of Chicago business types comparing best vs worst neighborhood survivability scores.
Best vs worst neighborhood per business type in Chicago. Discount Store has the widest spread — best 80, worst 56 (24-point gap). The wider the dumbbell, the more location matters.

Frequently Asked Questions

Here are the most common questions about opening a business in East Chatham.

What type of business should you rent your East Chatham storefront to?

The analysis is clear: in East Chatham, Kosher Restaurants, Ukrainian Restaurants, and Pet Grooming Shops consistently score highest on survivability, giving landlords the best chance of retaining tenants for 2+ years.

  • Every site-selection decision starts and ends with location — it outweighs concept, brand, and execution combined.
  • StreetSpring's precision goes beyond the neighborhood — it scores survivability at the exact address for every major brick-and-mortar business category. Landlords can use StreetSpring to match their exact address to the tenant types most likely to stay open and paying rent for 2+ years.

Related: See How Landlord Representatives in Chicago Can Reduce Vacancy & Increase Tenant Longevity

Should you rent your East Chatham storefront to a Kosher Restaurant?

According to our 2026 survivability model, a Kosher Restaurant leads all business categories for East Chatham landlords — ~84% at the best addresses and ~73% at the most challenging ones in this neighborhood.

  • StreetSpring's precision goes beyond the neighborhood — it scores survivability at the exact address for every major brick-and-mortar business category.

What should I consider when opening a business in East Chatham?

Before committing to any location in East Chatham, the highest-priority metric to check is the Survivability Score — it encodes every relevant location factor into a single, actionable number.

  • Revenue Capture Score matters more than any other single metric when predicting business outcomes.
  • The underlying models are StreetSpring's own — built, trained, and maintained using data external platforms cannot access.
  • The most current survivability data for East Chatham is free to access on StreetSpring — no account required to check your specific address.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.

Real estate professionals and business owners across 24 major metros use StreetSpring to ground their site-selection decisions in data, not guesswork. Aggregated survivability rankings for Chicago are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.

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.