City In Review: Chicago

West Town · 2026-05

West Town logs 19 new licenses, then the data stops

West Town issued 19 business licenses in May—Chicago Nail Room, Zen Wine & Spirits, and a Hyatt Place among them—but every other tracked metric dropped to zero. April had logged 48 permits worth $43.7 million, 1,250 service requests, 37 crimes, and a failed food inspection. May's counts: zero permits, zero service requests, zero crimes, zero inspections. The biz_new field shows 19; the details array lists ten distinct entities, some appearing multiple times for different license types.

By the numbers

Building permits0
Declared construction value$0
New business licenses19
Business closings (proxy)0
311 service requests0
Reported crimes0
Violent crimes0
Failed food inspections0

New businesses

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