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?
Ten falls of CPS’s own 20th-day files: district-run schools under 250 students went from 56 to 115 — 22 percent of the district’s schools — while the median school shrank from 498 students to 396, and 19 traditional schools crossed under the line in fall 2025 alone. Counted with the bands stated plainly: descriptive, not a CPS standard.
We read all 21 of CPS’s 20th-day enrollment files, fall 2005 through fall 2025, and joined them on the district’s own school IDs. The count fell from 420,925 to 316,224 — and the map is uneven: 63 of 77 community areas are below their fall 2012 level while the Loop’s schools nearly doubled. Mapped area by area, with the reading rules that matter.
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.
