Burger in Chicago

45 restaurants in Chicago list burger on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Burrito House at $4.10, listed as Hamburger. The typical price across town is $8.50, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $14.38 at Alexander's Restaurant, so the two ends of the list are $10.28 apart, which is 251% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 17 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 12 sit within a dollar of it and 11 charge more than a dollar over.

We track burger in 213 other areas and compare them all on burger across United States. The typical price there runs $10.00 at the median, so Chicago is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 170 of the 213. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $4.00 at Tony's Pizza in New York, NY, and the highest best price is $13.95 in Thousand Oaks, CA. The nearest area with it is Addison, about 16 mi away, where the best price is $6.29.

Where is the cheapest burger in Chicago? Burrito House, at $4.10 on 3718 N Elston Ave. The same dish reaches $14.38 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $10.28.

What should burger cost here? About $8.50 is the typical price across the 45 kitchens in Chicago that list it. Of the ones listed above, 17 are more than a dollar below that and 11 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 $6.29. That is $2.19 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.