City In Review: Chicago

Avalon Park · Then vs Now

Avalon Park: 2024-12 vs 2025-12

A side-by-side look at how Avalon Park shifted between two periods.

2024-12 2025-12 Change
Building permits 10 10 0%
Construction value ($) $174,506 $191,834 +10%
New business licenses 9 4 -56%
Business closings (proxy) 0 0
311 service requests 192 302 +57%
Reported crimes 88 86 -2%
Violent crimes 29 26 -10%
Failed food inspections 0 3 +3

2024-12

Avalon Park logs nine new businesses, crime jumps 26%

Avalon Park added nine businesses in December, including two daycares—Kreating Young Minds Academy and Raekwon's Scholastic Daycare Academy II—plus Fitzgerald Liquor, which picked up retail food, tobacco, and package goods licenses. Permits fell to 10 from 12, with seven handled through the express program. Total permit value dropped from $355k to $175k. Crime rose to 88 incidents from 70, a 26% increase, while violent crime held steady at 29. Service requests dropped 15%, led by dead animal pickups and water lead test kits.

2025-12

Avalon Park permit value drops 76% to $192k

Avalon Park pulled just 10 permits in December, down from 16 the month before, with total value falling from $813k to $192k. Nine of those permits came through the express program. Service requests climbed 11% to 302, led by 29 complaints about busted traffic signals. Violent crime ticked up 37%, from 19 incidents to 26. Three food establishments failed inspection, up from two.

New businesses — 2024-12

  • KREATING YOUNG MINDS ACADEMY, LLC (Children's Services Facility License)
  • DOTY NASH FUNERAL HOME (Limited Business License)
  • GOOD YEAR AUTO SERVICE CENTER (Motor Vehicle Services License)
  • FITZGERALD LIQUOR (Retail Food Establishment)
  • FITZGERALD LIQUOR (Package Goods)
  • PRETTY ZILLA (Regulated Business License)
  • The Champagne Connection, Inc (Regulated Business License)
  • FITZGERALD LIQUOR (Tobacco)
  • RAEKWON'S SCHOLASTIC DAYCARE ACADEMY II LLC (Children's Services Facility License)

New businesses — 2025-12

  • ZPACT Developers II LLC (Regulated Business License)
  • DREAM BIG SCHOLASTIC ACADEMY (Children's Services Facility License)
  • FITZGERALD LIQUOR (Tobacco)
  • NEIGHBORHOOD WHOLESALER STORE (Limited Business License)