Name: Back of the Yards Coffee
Address: W 47th St & S Marshfield Ave, Chicago, IL, 60609
Price range: $

Back of the Yards Coffee

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📍 W 47th St & S Marshfield Ave, Chicago, IL 60609

Back of the Yards Coffee started in 2017 when longtime friends Jesse Iñiguez and Mayra Hernandez turned an idea for a roastery into an actual shop on 47th Street, and the business has stayed explicitly rooted in the neighborhood it's named for ever since — a portion of every sale goes directly to local programs focused on peace and education, not just a line in a mission statement.

The signature 47th Street Blend and single-origin Mexico coffee, plus a torta program — from a Latine-owned roaster that donates a portion of every sale to neighborhood peace and education programs.

The coffee itself has real identity: a signature 47th Street Blend alongside a single-origin pull from Mexico, plus a torta program one barista runs alongside the usual grab-and-go bagels, toasts, oatmeal, and rotating specials like tamales and kolaches. In March 2025, the company opened a new, larger flagship at 47th and Marshfield inside a historic Goldblatt's department store building, part of a broader city push to revitalize a commercial corridor that's gone underinvested for decades — founder Jesse Iñiguez has described the goal plainly as bringing real economic development and jobs back to the neighborhood that gave the company its name. The cafe has also been documented, in local reporting during periods of heightened immigration enforcement activity in the area, as a place where community members have gathered — a role tied directly to its hire-from-and-give-back-to-the-community model rather than something separate from it.

No confirmed website, Instagram, or exact street number for the new Marshfield location turned up in research — the cross street is the most precise address available. No happy hour applies to a daytime coffee shop, but a company this deliberately built around reinvestment is its own kind of ongoing community deal.

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