Double Cheeseburger in Chicago

33 restaurants in Chicago list double cheeseburger on their menus. The cheapest is Taqueria El Ranchito at $5.99. The typical price across town is $10.75, and the dearest we found is $19.00 at The Fireplace Inn, so the two ends of the list are $13.01 apart, which is 217% more for the same dish. Of the 33 kitchens listed, 11 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 14 sit within a dollar of it and 8 charge more than a dollar over.

We track double cheeseburger in 34 other areas and compare them all on double cheeseburger across United States. The typical price there runs $12.99 at the median, so Chicago is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 28 of the 34. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $5.99 at Hook Fish & Chicken in Cincinnati, OH, and the highest best price is $13.99 in Henderson, NV. The nearest area with it is Milwaukee, about 84 mi away, where the best price is $8.99.

Where is the cheapest double cheeseburger in Chicago? Taqueria El Ranchito, at $5.99 on 2829 N Milwaukee Ave. The same dish reaches $19.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $13.01.

What should double cheeseburger cost here? About $10.75 is the typical price across the 33 kitchens in Chicago that list it. Of the ones listed above, 11 are more than a dollar below that and 8 are more than a dollar above, so the typical price is a middle rather than a floor.

Is it cheaper nearby? The nearest area we track it in is Milwaukee, about 84 mi away, where the best price is $8.99. That is $3.00 more than the best price here.

Why do the prices differ so much? We compare what each menu calls the same dish, and menus are not identical: portion, cut, sides and the kind of room you are sitting in all ride on the price, and none of that shows up in a number. Part portions and half sizes are kept out of this comparison, and a chain charging the same at several addresses is counted once, so the spread above is between genuinely different kitchens rather than the same one repeated.