City In Review: Chicago

Lower West Side · 2026-05

Five new businesses, then nothing

Lower West Side added five businesses in May—Rocket Productions, Hondai Enterprises, Express Grill, Boost Mobile, and R R Street Co—but every other metric fell to zero. No building permits (down from 19), no 311 requests (down from 549), no reported crimes (down from 13), no food inspection failures (down from 3). April logged $478k in permit work; May's total is zero. The data doesn't say why.

By the numbers

Building permits0
Declared construction value$0
New business licenses5
Business closings (proxy)0
311 service requests0
Reported crimes0
Violent crimes0
Failed food inspections0

New businesses

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