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Where to eat in Illinois
Savor Scout covers 52 Illinois cities, together home to about 6,055,539 people. Pick one and it opens with the location already set.
Eating out in Illinois, by the numbers
Across the 16 counties these cities sit in, the median works out at 21.1 food businesses per 10,000 residents against a national median of 19.4. That puts Illinois close to the national middle.
The densest of them is Springfield at 24.1 per 10,000; the thinnest is Romeoville at 17.3.
US Census Bureau, County Business Patterns (2022), counted at county level by NAICS code. Business counts, not a quality ranking.
Illinois cities
- Addison — 21.2 per 10k
- Arlington Heights — 21.1 per 10k
- Aurora — 18 per 10k
- Bartlett — 21.1 per 10k
- Belleville — 18.3 per 10k
- Berwyn — 21.1 per 10k
- Bloomington — 18.8 per 10k
- Bolingbrook — 17.3 per 10k
- Buffalo Grove — 19.1 per 10k
- Calumet City — 21.1 per 10k
- Carol Stream — 21.2 per 10k
- Carpentersville — 18 per 10k
- Champaign — 23.5 per 10k
- Chicago — 21.1 per 10k
- Cicero — 21.1 per 10k
- Crystal Lake — 18.7 per 10k
- Decatur — 19.6 per 10k
- DeKalb — 18 per 10k
- Des Plaines — 21.1 per 10k
- Downers Grove — 21.2 per 10k
- Elgin — 18 per 10k
- Elmhurst — 21.2 per 10k
- Evanston — 21.1 per 10k
- Glenview — 21.1 per 10k
- Hanover Park — 21.1 per 10k
- Hoffman Estates — 21.1 per 10k
- Joliet — 17.3 per 10k
- Lombard — 21.2 per 10k
- Moline — 23 per 10k
- Mount Prospect — 21.1 per 10k
- Naperville — 21.2 per 10k
- Normal — 18.8 per 10k
- Oak Lawn — 21.1 per 10k
- Oak Park — 21.1 per 10k
- Orland Park — 21.1 per 10k
- Palatine — 21.1 per 10k
- Park Ridge — 21.1 per 10k
- Peoria — 22.4 per 10k
- Plainfield — 17.3 per 10k
- Quincy — 21.3 per 10k
- Rock Island — 23 per 10k
- Rockford — 19.5 per 10k
- Romeoville — 17.3 per 10k
- Schaumburg — 21.1 per 10k
- Skokie — 21.1 per 10k
- Springfield — 24.1 per 10k
- Streamwood — 21.1 per 10k
- Tinley Park — 21.1 per 10k
- Urbana — 23.5 per 10k
- Waukegan — 19.1 per 10k
- Wheaton — 21.2 per 10k
- Wheeling — 21.1 per 10k
Guides
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- Eating out with a restriction
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