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.
The records on Englewood: a $32,341 median house price in 2019 - the lowest our screen counts - risen to $119,950, second-fastest behind its neighbor; 72 sub-$100K sales against 2 loans; valuations at 64.4 percent of sale prices. Every section links its source analysis.
The records on Pullman: a house median at 2.6 times its 2019 level on 49 sales, two signals the screen could not score at all, one listed affordable development, and the Red Line Extension corridor whose before-numbers our baseline froze. Every section links its source analysis.
The records on Avondale: a house median up 63 percent to $715,000 - 12th-highest in the city - fast enough to clear our screen's growth test, yet zero signals fire because the area started above the citywide median. The first North Side profile in the series.
The records on Woodlawn: a house median that roughly tripled to $350,000 on a thin 27-sale base, flats at $512,000 - above the citywide median - a corporate share near one in four that barely moved, and the Green Line's 63rd Street branch at 70 to 77 percent of 2019. Every section links its source analysis.
The records on West Englewood: house median $40,000 to $150,500, the fastest rise our screen ranks, and flats fastest too; corporate buying past the threshold; 100 sub-$100K sales against 4 loans; valuations at 57.5 percent of sale prices. Every section links its source analysis.
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.
Back of the Yards and Canaryville, in the records: houses up 82 percent from half the citywide base, corporate buying past the signal threshold, business licenses up 168 percent - the fastest on our screen - and the small-mortgage gap in plain view. Every figure linked to its source analysis.
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.
