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r/chicagofood

200.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 4.3K upvotes, which works out to 22 per 1,000 members.

22peak upvotes per 1,000 members
200.7Kmembers
4.3Kbest post
526most comments
305posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

30% 26% 20% 20%
Text 30% Question 26% Image 20% Gallery 20% Link 4%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Question 121 Review 53 Pic 51 Specific Request 20 What's good? 17 News 9 Discussion 7 I Have a Suggestion 6 Rant 5 Thoughts 5

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Visiting Chicago for the First time...Delilah's(the bar) was the rudest and the most racist experience I have had in the States.

↑ 4.3K 💬 444 gallery 2026

My self guided food tour of Chicago. 5 nights, 40 bars , 20 restaurants 1 stomach.

↑ 3.3K 💬 334 gallery 2026

Italian Beefs to die for

↑ 1.6K 💬 42 image 2026

Idc what no one says, Pequods is top tier

↑ 1.4K 💬 226 gallery 2026

Expensive but poor quality recommendation for an enemy?

↑ 822 💬 526 question 2026

If you ever find yourself in the Ukrainian Village, Tryzub is the place to eat!

↑ 714 💬 46 gallery 2026

Came hungry for Applefest! Go early to avoid strollers and lines

↑ 638 💬 113 gallery 2026

AI Slop at Golden Nugget Pancake House

↑ 600 💬 403 gallery 2026

No more Pequod’s posts for a week

↑ 589 💬 122 text 2026

Spent some time in your amazing city last month. Here are a few of the spots I was able to try.

↑ 554 💬 76 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/chicagofood, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/chicagofood have?
r/chicagofood has about 200.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 305 of its posts; the biggest reached 4.3K upvotes, which is 22 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/chicagofood?
"Visiting Chicago for the First time...Delilah's(the bar) was the rudest and the most racist experience I have had in the States." reached 4.3K upvotes and 444 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/chicagofood.
What subreddits are similar to r/chicagofood?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Louisiana, r/popculture, r/Antimoneymemes, r/BlueskySkeets.
What kind of posts do best on r/chicagofood?
Of the posts we hold, 30% are text posts and 26% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/chicagofood?
Across 305 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Monday at 01:00 UTC (611 avg upvotes), Monday at 13:00 UTC (338 avg upvotes), Monday at 21:00 UTC (312 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/chicagofood?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/chicagofood has 361 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 301 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/chicagofood, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.