City of Chicago

Grocery Stores

Name: Grocery Stores
Creator: City of Chicago

Grocery stores in Chicago used to estimate residents living in food deserts as part of a 2013 city analysis. Each record includes the store name, address, and zip code.

Example records

Namebrand	ZIP Codeaddress	Street Addressaddress	License IDregistration	Account Numberidentifier	Square Feetquantity	Buffer Sizeclassification	Community Area Namegeographic	Community Areageographic	Wardgeographic	Census Tractgeographic	Census Blockgeographic
CERMAK PRODUCE	60623	3311 W 26TH ST	1770942	311980	17000	A	SOUTH LAWNDALE	30	22	17031840800	170318408001003
JEWEL FOOD STORE #3302	60609	3644 S ARCHER AVE	1402	259	25431	A	MCKINLEY PARK	59	11	17031590500	170315905001037
QUALITY FOOD ON 71 ST INC	60629	2557 W 71ST ST	76481	22614	3000	B	CHICAGO LAWN	66	18	17031661000	170316610004004

Use cases

Grocery Chain Site Expansion Targeting

A retail real estate analyst at a regional grocery chain maps existing competitor locations against neighborhood boundaries and store sizes to identify Chicago community areas with low square footage coverage, prioritizing them for new store proposals.

NameStreet AddressSquare FeetCommunity Area NameLatitude

Food Access Underwriting for Community Development Loans

A CDFI loan officer evaluating a small grocery operator's application cross-references the applicant's address against this dataset to determine whether the proposed location sits in a documented food desert, which affects loan terms and grant eligibility under community reinvestment programs.

Street AddressZIP CodeCommunity Area NameBuffer SizeLicense ID

Vendor Network Verification for a Grocery Distributor

A wholesale food distributor's compliance team checks whether prospective retail accounts hold valid Chicago business licenses and operate at the addresses provided during onboarding, flagging discrepancies between self-reported locations and the city's official store registry.

NameLicense IDAccount NumberStreet AddressZIP Code