Profiles of Chicago-area suburbs, neighborhoods, and subdivisions, from village basics to individual communities. Built to answer the question every mover asks: what is it actually like to live there?
A map and list of all 267 suburbs of Chicago in Cook, DuPage, Kane, Lake, McHenry and Will counties, grouped north, northwest, west, southwest and south by Metra line, with train times, home values and rents for nearly every town.
A map and list of the north suburbs of Chicago and the North Shore: 55 towns on and near Metra's UP North, MD-N and NCS, with weekday trains and morning ride times, and Census home values, incomes and rents.
A map and list of the southwest suburbs of Chicago: 31 towns on and near Metra's SouthWest Service and Heritage Corridor, with weekday trains and morning ride times, and Census home values, incomes and rents.
A map and list of the south suburbs of Chicago: 46 towns on and near the Metra Electric and Rock Island, with weekday trains and morning ride times to downtown, and Census home values, incomes and rents.
The median condominium in Kenwood, on Chicago’s South Side, sold for $235,000 in 2025, up 10 percent from $214,500 in 2019, the second-smallest rise among the 37 community areas with enough condominium sales to compare, after the Loop. Condominiums are two-thirds of what sells: 99 of the 150 home sales in 2025. The median house rose 44 percent, from $525,000 to $755,000.
Companies bought 31.2 percent of the homes sold in Avalon Park, on Chicago’s Far Southeast Side, in 2024–25, up from 23.3 percent in 2018–19, the third-largest rise of the 75 areas measured and the one market signal active here of the two that could be measured. Of the 849 homes bought from 2018 through 2022, 123 were sold again by their buyer within two years, 14.5 percent, the eighth-highest rate among the 73 areas with at least 300 purchases.
Of the 929 homes bought in Calumet Heights, on Chicago’s Far Southeast Side, from 2018 through 2022, 167 were sold again by their buyer within two years, 18.0 percent, the highest rate among the 73 community areas with at least 300 purchases. Two market signals in our analysis are active here: the median house rose from $136,250 in 2019 to $226,000 in 2025, 1.66 times, and companies bought 28.7 percent of the homes sold in 2024–25, up from 20.9 percent in 2018–19, the fourth-largest rise in the city.
The median two-to-six-flat in Washington Park, on Chicago’s South Side, sold for $562,500 in 2025, 2.62 times the $215,000 of 2019, the fourth-largest rise among the 46 areas with enough sales to compare. New-construction permits more than doubled, from 20 in 2018–19 to 43 in 2024–25; those are the two market signals active here, of the three that could be measured. Companies bought 35.1 percent of the homes sold in 2024–25, the third-highest share of any area, after Burnside and South Shore.
The tax rolls count 3,845 two-to-six-flats in Belmont Cragin, on Chicago’s Northwest Side, in 2026, 75 more than in 2006, the second-largest gain of any community area after Portage Park: 138 parcels joined the class and 63 left it. The median condominium sold for $200,000 in 2025, up 67 percent from $120,000 in 2019, the third-largest rise among the 37 areas with enough condominium sales to compare, on 30 and 37 sales.
The tax rolls count 3,490 two-to-six-flats in Portage Park, on Chicago’s Northwest Side, in 2026, 93 more than in 2006, the largest gain of any community area: 183 parcels joined the class over the twenty years and 90 left it. First-time business licenses rose from 92 in 2019 to 112 in 2025, up 22 percent, the one market signal of the five in our analysis that is active here.
