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?
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.
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.
The community area holding the West Loop leads all 77 in new-construction permits and has one of the only two above-2019 L stations - yet trips none of our five gentrification signals. Every figure linked to its source analysis.
Every figure our analyses have measured about East Garfield Park on one page: home sales, permits, licenses, mortgages, 311 timing, subsidized housing and the Conservatory stop, each linked to its source analysis.
We mapped all 77,942 Chicago house appeals from tax year 2025 against 446,354 house parcels. Filing runs about 12 times higher on the North Side lakefront than on the Southwest and Southeast Sides - and the low-filing areas win more often when they file.
Forty-four buildings are on the city's published scofflaw list. Four have been on every list for four and a half years, the oldest case was filed in 2016, and fourteen of them sit in a single community area. The record, read as the court docket it is.
