Guides for anyone relocating to Chicago or its suburbs: what homes cost, how buying works here, and the practical questions every move raises. Researched from local data and sources, and updated as the answers change.
The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act became law on July 11 without the president's signature. We checked its four Chicago-relevant sections against 241,653 deeds, the city's permit file, and its inspection record. The famous investor cap has the least to grip here.
Condo-tower deconversions, scattered-site operators, a nonprofit receiver, and 9,704 two-year flips concentrated in the bungalow belt: what the buyer names on nine years of recorded Chicago sales actually show.
The Assessor's rolls show 7,914 small apartment buildings leaving Chicago's two-to-six-flat stock since 2006, about one a day, while prices rose 62 percent and more than one buyer in four became a corporate entity. The city's housing ladder, measured.
We joined every market sale recorded by the Cook County Assessor since 2018 to Chicago's 77 community areas. What buyers actually paid, by neighborhood and by type of home, with a map you can scrub through seven years.
IRS tax-return migration files show where Cook County movers actually land: 39 percent stay in Illinois, a third go to the collar counties, and the named Florida counties draw under 6 percent. Four cuts of the data, including the income test of the wealth-flight claim.
The Census Bureau's current estimates show Illinois gaining population in 2023, 2024, and 2025 - and all six Chicagoland counties growing since 2023. We computed the numbers from the Bureau's files, including the 57,000-person revision that explains why the shrinking-Illinois story never got updated.
Zillow's new research says the national housing deficit finally stopped growing — and its worst-shortage rankings are all coastal metros. What Chicago's absence from those lists does and doesn't mean for anyone weighing a move.
Is Chicago actually growing again, or is that just PR spin? It’s real. The city added more than twenty thousand people in the latest census window — which is awkward for the “Chicago is dying” crowd. A big chunk came…
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