Chicago wrote 89,021 building violations in 2019 that are marked open or complied today. Just 42.7 percent are marked complied - 24.9 percent in Englewood, 66.6 percent on the Near North Side. We mapped the complied share across every community area with at least 500 violations, for the 2019 and 2023 cohorts.
Englewood’s median house sold for $32,341 in 2019, the lowest of the 70 Chicago community areas with enough sales to compare, and $115,000 in 2025, the second-largest rise. Of the 3,030 parcels classed as two-to-six-flats there in 2006, 588 have left the class, and 358 of those are now classed as vacant land. Rebuilt September 30, 2026 on the county’s updated sales file.
Pullman’s median house sold for $68,900 in 2019 and $178,000 in 2025, the fourth-largest rise among the 70 Chicago community areas with enough sales to compare, on 63 sales. Of the 423 homes bought in the Far South Side area from 2018 through 2022, 63 were sold again by their buyer within two years, 15 percent against 7 percent citywide. Rebuilt September 30, 2026 on the county’s updated sales file.
Avondale’s median house sold for $437,500 in 2019 and $694,500 in 2025, up 59 percent against 39 percent citywide, and none of the five market signals in our analysis is active in the Northwest Side area. Of the 193 two-to-six-flats that left the Assessor’s count there since 2006, 142 are now classed as single-family houses. Rebuilt September 30, 2026 on the county’s updated sales file.
Woodlawn’s median house sold for $114,678 in 2019 and $347,500 in 2025, three times as much, on 35 and 39 sales. Its median two-to-six-flat, at $462,000, is above the citywide $445,000. And the South Side area has more two-to-six-flats on the tax rolls than it had in 2006: 1,740 against 1,695. Rebuilt September 30, 2026 on the county’s updated sales file.
West Englewood’s median house sold for $40,000 in 2019 and $152,500 in 2025, the largest rise among the 70 Chicago community areas with enough sales to compare. Its median two-to-six-flat went from $63,000 to $220,000, also the largest rise. The Assessor valued the homes sold there in 2025 at 57 percent of their prices with every sale counted, the lowest of the 65 areas with a figure, and at 63 percent with recent resales set aside. Rebuilt September 30, 2026 on the county’s updated sales file.
HUD publishes a two-bedroom rent figure for every Chicago ZIP - the schedule Section 8 payment standards are built from. The median is up 46 percent since 2019, the floor is in Back of the Yards, and fourteen ZIPs share a $2,670 ceiling set by a verified federal cap.
New City, the South Side community area that includes Back of the Yards and Canaryville, is one of three areas where four of the five market signals in our analysis are active. First-time business licenses went from 80 in 2019 to 214 in 2025, and the median two-to-six-flat price doubled, from $115,000 to $230,000. Rebuilt September 30, 2026 on the county’s updated sales file.
On the same January-May window where CTA buses run at 86 percent of 2019 and the L at 65, Divvy logged 1.76 million trips against 998,000 - an expansion, not a recovery, and the piece explains the difference.
A River North office building just sold to become 70 apartments. The city permit file shows the wave it joins: 78 office-to-residential conversion permits since 2015, 35 of them since January 2024, at least 2,002 permitted homes in former office space.
