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?
East Garfield Park, on Chicago’s West Side, is one of three community areas where four of the five market signals in our analysis are active. New-construction permits went from 17 in 2018–19 to 64 in 2024–25, and the median two-to-six-flat sold for $370,000 in 2025, up from $199,000 in 2019. Rebuilt September 30, 2026 on the county’s updated sales file.
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.
Five market signals scored from public records in all 77 Chicago community areas: house prices, two-to-six-flat prices, company buyers, new-construction permits and new business licenses. Three areas west and south of downtown show four of five; Logan Square, Avondale and the Lower West Side show none. Recomputed September 30, 2026, on the county’s updated sales file, with a correction to the company-buyer share.
Every UP-NW station town from Park Ridge to Harvard, plus the corridor's no-station communities — 23 towns with current Census population, home value, and income figures. Companion to our west suburbs reference.
Search interest in South Shore is up 22% since the Obama Presidential Center opened. Six years ago, the neighborhood was cut from the housing-protection ordinance that covers Woodlawn. Here's the evidence, and its limits.
Chicago-area search interest in Logan Square jumped 25% in eight weeks while new-construction permits run 48% ahead of last year. Two datasets, one direction — and what it means if you're apartment hunting.
We pulled every new-construction permit from Chicago's open data portal: citywide activity is up 4.8%, the Near West Side leads by a wide margin, and two West Side neighborhoods cracked the top ten.
Learn about Wyngate, Barrington, IL, where colonial charm meets modern amenities—discover the hidden allure that makes this community truly unique.
Opulent Wynstone in Barrington offers more than luxury homes—discover why this exclusive gated community captivates Chicago's elite.
