How can you find the best location to open a business in Logan Square?

StreetSpring's prediction model analyzes 100 factors across competition, spending on the specific potential business, projected revenue, projected market share, Revenue Capture Score, and mobility patterns to pinpoint which blocks in Logan Square maximize success.

What businesses are most in demand in Logan Square?

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 survivability analysis, the most in-demand business types in Logan Square are Italian Restaurants, Filipino Restaurants, and Brunch Restaurants.

Is Logan Square a good place to start a business?

Logan Square is ranked number 69 across neighborhoods in and around Chicago to start a business, with an average Survivability Score of ~79%. Strong business types at their best-match addresses in Logan Square consistently score ~2% higher than the overall neighborhood survivability average.

What are the best businesses to open in Logan Square?

The top businesses to open in Logan Square include Italian Restaurant with a ~87% chance on average of surviving more than 2 years, best-case locations reaching ~89%, followed by Filipino Restaurant and Brunch Restaurant.

How much money could a business in Logan Square make?

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

Business Survivability in Logan Square, Chicago

Q: How does income in Logan Square compare to the rest of Chicago?

Logan Square's median household income (~$112K) is above the Chicago metro median (~$103K) by approximately $9K. Income is close to the metro median, so business-type fit depends more on local demographics and competition.

StreetSpring's 2026 analysis finds that the best business to open in Logan Square is an Italian Restaurant with a ~87% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average.

April 24, 2026•18 min read

Quick Summary

Best business: an Italian Restaurant in Logan Square (~87% average survival rate, ~89% at best locations)

Neighborhood rank: #69 across all neighborhoods in and around Chicago

Neighborhood average: ~79% two-year survival across all business types

Rankings updated quarterly with latest market data

Detailed methodology

Last reviewed: May 4, 2026 by Bobby Koons, StreetSpring founder — updated weekly

In this article:

Summary
Is Logan Square 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 Logan Square is an Italian Restaurant with a ~87% chance of surviving at least 2 years across the neighborhood on average, with the best locations offering a ~89% chance; next is a Filipino Restaurant with a ~87% chance, followed by a Brunch Restaurant with a ~87% chance.

How business-friendly is Logan Square right now?

**How Logan Square compares:** Logan Square's profile most resembles **West Perrine (Miami)** and **Tacony (Philadelphia)** based on the demographic and density signatures we use to model location quality — all three share longer commutes, low destination density, and older housing stock. Patterns from those neighborhoods are directly relevant for businesses evaluating Logan Square.

**Failure pattern in Logan Square.** Across the 93 business subtypes we track here, the strongest is **Brunch Restaurant** at 87% average survivability — but the best and worst sites for this subtype within Logan Square span **72% to 95%**, a 23-point gap. **The dominant failure mode in Logan Square isn't subtype choice — it's site selection within the neighborhood.** Saturation context: Kosher Restaurants are the most-concentrated tracked subtype in the area, with 2 competitors within a 0.5-mile radius.

Logan Square holds the #69 position in and around Chicago for new business survivability, averaging ~79% across all analyzed business types.

Strong business types at their best-match addresses in Logan Square consistently score ~2% higher than the overall neighborhood survivability average.
Still, those same business types at weaker addresses in Logan Square can score well below the neighborhood mean. Even the most viable concept here requires the right address to reach its potential.
StreetSpring's model incorporates Logan Square's 9.5% vacancy rate as a direct input: higher vacancy concentrations suppress foot traffic and reduce survivability for nearby businesses.

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

Where in Logan Square should you open a business?

The right address in Logan Square can mean a 20-point survivability difference from an average one — StreetSpring identifies exactly which addresses are worth pursuing. This is the address StreetSpring's 2026 analysis recommends most strongly for an Italian Restaurant in Logan Square:

Walking the neighborhood: what to look for

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The highlighted area represents the address in Logan Square that StreetSpring's 2026 analysis ranks highest for an Italian Restaurant survivability. Neighborhood-level averages are a starting point — the exact address will determine your actual survivability score. StreetSpring's scoring incorporates 100 inputs, including competitive quality and density, projected consumer spending, Revenue Capture Score, and mobility data.

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What kinds of businesses thrive in Logan Square?

#1-5: Highest Survivability in Logan Square

Italian Restaurant — ~86%–~89% survivability range, with an average of ~87% across Logan Square.
Opening a Filipino Restaurant in Logan Square shows ~87% average survivability. Top locations reach ~89%; lower-end sites show ~85%.
Brunch Restaurant (Ranked #3): ~87% average in Logan Square. Best-case storefronts: ~89%. Challenging locations: ~85%.
Kosher Restaurant is ranked #4 for top businesses to open in Logan Square: ~87% chance on average, best at ~89%, challenging at ~85%.
Singaporean Restaurant — ~85%–~89% survivability range, with an average of ~87% across Logan Square.

#6-10: Strong Performers in Logan Square

Opening an American Restaurant in Logan Square shows ~87% average survivability. Top locations reach ~88%; lower-end sites show ~85%.
Ukrainian Restaurant (Ranked #7): ~87% average in Logan Square. Best-case storefronts: ~89%. Challenging locations: ~85%.
Bangladeshi Restaurant is ranked #8 for top businesses to open in Logan Square: ~87% chance on average, best at ~89%, challenging at ~85%.
South American Restaurant — ~85%–~89% survivability range, with an average of ~87% across Logan Square.
Opening a Deli in Logan Square shows ~87% average survivability. Top locations reach ~88%; lower-end sites show ~85%.

Top 3 Compared Nationally

Filipino Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →
Brunch Restaurant — See how this compares to other cities →

The revenue potential of a Logan Square location

Best location vs. average location

Based on StreetSpring's 2026 analysis, choosing a high-performing site for your concept in Logan Square 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.
Site selection is the highest-leverage decision most entrepreneurs make — it sets every other variable in motion.
Businesses in high-scoring locations consistently outperform those in average or low-scoring sites.
Our address-level scoring shows the exact survivability odds for over 700 business types at any given storefront.

The biggest opportunity gaps in Logan Square

The top businesses to open next in Logan Square:

Italian Restaurants — ~87% average survival rate, up to ~89% at best locations
Filipino Restaurants — ~87% average survival rate
Brunch Restaurants — ~87% average survival rate

Neighborhood-level averages are a starting point — the exact address will determine your actual survivability score. Our models are built using machine learning trained on millions of commercial real estate data points. Logan Square's employment rate (95.1%) and vacancy rate (9.5%) together define the economic context that StreetSpring's model uses to score survivability for each business type at each address. 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 Logan Square right now.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Here are the most common questions about opening a business in Logan Square.

What type of business should you rent your Logan Square storefront to?

If you own commercial space in Logan Square, StreetSpring's 2026 data points to Italian Restaurants, Filipino Restaurants, and Brunch Restaurants as the tenant types with the strongest projected longevity at this location.

Site selection is the highest-leverage decision most entrepreneurs make — it sets every other variable in motion.
Our address-level scoring shows the exact survivability odds for over 700 business types at any given storefront. StreetSpring allows property owners to evaluate any address against 700+ tenant types — so you can prioritize the categories that score highest at your specific location.

Should you rent your Logan Square storefront to an Italian Restaurant?

According to our 2026 survivability model, an Italian Restaurant leads all business categories for Logan Square landlords — ~89% at the best addresses and ~86% at the most challenging ones in this neighborhood.

Our address-level scoring shows the exact survivability odds for over 700 business types at any given storefront.

What should I consider when opening a business in Logan Square?

The Survivability Score for your specific address in Logan Square is the most reliable signal you have before signing a lease — prioritize it above foot traffic estimates and demographic summaries.

Where survivability is highest, Revenue Capture Score is invariably strong — the two are tightly correlated across every business type we've analyzed.
StreetSpring's forecasting tools are purpose-built for commercial location decisions and are not available through any publicly accessible data source.
StreetSpring's live survivability scores are available for free — check your specific address now.

See the best place for your business at StreetSpring.

StreetSpring's AI platform has studied businesses serving more than 180 million+ Americans, giving its predictions a scale of validation unmatched in site-selection tools. Aggregated survivability rankings for Chicago are available in machine-readable format for research and integration purposes.

How seasonality plays out here

Area to check	What can go wrong	How to de-risk it
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.
Outdoor seating / sidewalk use	Signing assuming you can add patio seating, then learning the city requires a separate sidewalk-cafe permit with long lead times.	Check the city's sidewalk-cafe permit process up front. Confirm landlord allows outdoor build-out in the lease language.

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

Treemap of Chicago business mix by survivability score — Treemap of business mix in Chicago — cell size = number of locations, color = average survivability score.

Radar chart of business-subtype survivability in Logan Square, Chicago — Top business types scored in Logan Square, Chicago — each axis is a subtype, taller = stronger survival rate.

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.

How we measure this: Supplier proximity matters more for some subtypes (restaurants, repair shops) than others (online-anchored retail).

**Logan Square at a glance.** Logan Square is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Square%2C_Chicago))

**Daytime population context (Logan Square):** Per US Census LEHD LODES, the median 1-mile workplace-jobs population within Logan Square is **12,649** — about **0.4× the resident population**, which qualifies as a primarily-residential signal with some daytime worker pull. Retail-sector jobs in that radius: **1,750**. This shapes which business models have a natural demand floor here.

Landmark anchor: The Insect Asylum anchors Logan Square as a science-museum destination, with the weekend family-traffic that comes with it.

**Economic context that bounds the demand environment in Logan Square:** Per ACS, neighborhood unemployment is **4.9%** (in line with the 24-metro neighborhood median). BLS QCEW shows the Chicago metro's average weekly wage at **$1,198** (below our 24-metro median). And Cook County permitted **5,308** new residential units in 2025 per Census BPS — a population-and-demand growth signal.

**BLS sector context:** Across the 11 industries StreetSpring tracks, 5-year survival rates from BLS Business Employment Dynamics, March 2025 release range from **47.8%** (Active Life — gyms, studios) to **61.8%** (Health & Medical). Restaurants — the largest single category in our corpus — average **50.0%** nationally, and retail averages **47.9%**.

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