National Coffee Day: Best Coffee Shops Across Illinois and in the Greater Chicago Area

Sep 29, 2022

Just like your car requires gasoline or electrical charging to go, go go, so do humans! Many of us get a little extra pep in our step thanks to our bff, coffee. Since today is National Coffee day, we’re celebrating with some fun facts about nature’s magical bean brew, and we’ve gathered up some suggestions for best coffeeshops in our area and across Illinois. Check it out!

Five Fun Facts about Coffee:

Did you know that Americans drink about 400 million cups of coffee every day? That’s right, and in a year’s time we consume about 146 billion cups of coffee here in the US.
In 2022, Finland is leading the charge as the world’s biggest consumer of coffee per capita, drinking an average of 4 cups a day! In fact, the country even legally mandates that workers be allowed two 10-minute breaks for coffee on shift.
The United States has the largest coffee market globally, reaching more than 80 billion USD in revenue; second in line is Brazil, followed by Japan and then Canada.
The Number 1 coffee brand in the world is Starbucks. The company reported annual revenue of $23.52 billion, and has over 33,000 stores in 80 countries. There is even a Starbucks on site at the CIA headquarters (where they don’t allow any names on cups, for obvious reasons.)
The average 12oz cup of coffee contains somewhere between 90 to 150 beans per cup.