Lasagna in Chicago

45 restaurants in Chicago list lasagna on their menus, and the 40 cheapest are listed above. The cheapest is Italian Express at $10.95, listed as Homemade Meat Lasagna. The typical price across town is $16.41, and the dearest of the 40 listed is $20.61 at Leona's Pizzeria - Irving Park, so the two ends of the list are $9.66 apart, which is 88% more for the same dish. Of the 40 kitchens listed, 20 charge more than a dollar under the typical price, 10 sit within a dollar of it and 10 charge more than a dollar over.

We track lasagna in 609 other areas and compare them all on lasagna across United States. The typical price there runs $17.50 at the median, so Chicago is cheaper than most of them, with a lower typical price than 413 of the 609. The lowest best price anywhere we cover is $6.00 at Vitale's Sports Bar Ada in Grand Rapids, MI, and the highest best price is $26.00 in Memphis, TN. The nearest area with it is Cicero, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.95.

Where is the cheapest lasagna in Chicago? Italian Express, at $10.95 on 2447 W Devon Ave. The same dish reaches $20.61 elsewhere in town, so where you order it changes the bill by $9.66.

What should lasagna cost here? About $16.41 is the typical price across the 45 kitchens in Chicago that list it. Of the ones listed above, 20 are more than a dollar below that and 10 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 Cicero, about 2 mi away, where the best price is $10.95. That is the same as 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.