Grilled Chicken Sandwich in Chicago

27 restaurants in Chicago list grilled chicken sandwich on their menus. The cheapest is Big Tony's Pizza II at $6.50. The typical price across town is $17.00, and the dearest we found is $27.00 at Torali, so the two ends of the list are $20.50 apart, which is 315% more for the same dish. Of the 27 kitchens listed, 22 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 1 sits within a dollar of it and 4 charge more than a dollar over.

We track grilled chicken sandwich in 82 other areas and compare them all on grilled chicken sandwich across United States. The typical price there runs $12.49 at the median, so Chicago is dearer than most of them, with a lower typical price than 7 of the 82. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.75 at Giorgio's Pizza in Chester, PA, and the highest best price is $15.99 in Arlington, VA. The nearest area with it is Addison, about 16 mi away, where the best price is $7.99.

Where is the cheapest grilled chicken sandwich in Chicago? Big Tony's Pizza II, at $6.50 on 3732 W 59th St. The same dish reaches $27.00 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $20.50.

What should grilled chicken sandwich cost here? About $17.00 is the typical price across the 27 kitchens in Chicago that list it. Of the ones listed above, 22 are more than a dollar below that and 4 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 Addison, about 16 mi away, where the best price is $7.99. That is $1.49 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.