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If You Want Sushi in Chicago, Head to Lincoln Park: Yelp Data

By Paul Biasco | March 4, 2015 5:31am
 Juno is one of the top sushi spot in Lincoln Park.
Juno is one of the top sushi spot in Lincoln Park.
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LINCOLN PARK — Lincoln Park loves its sushi, and that's a fact.

According to data from Yelp, sushi bars are the most disproportionate type of restaurant in the neighborhood.

Yelp compared the percentage of all restaurants in individual neighborhoods to to the city as a whole and found that in Lincoln Park there are 388 percent more sushi spots that Chicago on average.

Sushi beat out pizza restaurants by a slim margin.

There are 337 percent more pizza spots than the city's average, 294 percent more traditional American restaurants, 290 more Japanese and 222 percent more Middle Eastern restaurants. 

Some neighborhood favorite sushi spots include Toro Sushi, 2546 N. Clark St.; Itto Sushi, 2616 N. Halsted St.; Juno, 2638 N. Lincoln Ave.; Kameya, 806 W. Webster Ave.; and Kyoto Sushi, 2534 N. Lincoln Ave.

Each neighborhood in our citywide map is color-coded to show which cuisine is disproportionately the most popular there compared with the rest of the city.

DePaul University is broken off into its own geographic region.

For the DePaul neighborhood, Japanese restaurants are 1,156 times more disproportionately popular, sushi restaurants were 1,147 percent, burgers 482 percent, fast food 449 percent and sandwiches 238 percent.

In neighboring neighborhoods, Lakeview's most disproportionately popular restaurants were Vietnamese, the Near North Side were steakhouses and Bucktown was hot dogs.

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