DuPage & Fox Valley

Arlington Heights & Mount Prospect

Arlington Heights and Mount Prospect are the northwest suburbs with real downtowns around their Union Pacific Northwest Metra stations, and Arlington Heights' is one of the…

$300k–$900k

Aurora

Aurora is the second-largest city in Illinois, about 180,000 people spread along the Fox River 40 miles west of the Loop, and one of the most…

$200k–$600k

Downers Grove & Westmont

Downers Grove and Westmont are neighboring BNSF commuter towns in DuPage County, with Downers Grove's downtown on Main Street around the Tivoli Theatre and Westmont's smaller…

$300k–$1M

Elgin

Elgin is the Fox River city at the northwest edge of the region, 40 miles from the Loop, with a historic downtown of 19th-century buildings, the…

$200k–$600k

Elmhurst & Lombard

Elmhurst and Lombard are neighboring DuPage County suburbs on the Union Pacific West line, about 15 miles west of the Loop. Elmhurst is the more affluent…

$300k–$1.2M

Naperville

Naperville is the largest suburb in the region after Aurora and the one that shows up on every national best-places list, with a downtown along the…

$350k–$1.5M

Schaumburg & Hoffman Estates

Schaumburg and Hoffman Estates are the corporate heart of the northwest suburbs, built almost entirely after 1960 around Woodfield Mall, one of the largest malls in…

$200k–$700k

St. Charles, Geneva & Batavia

St. Charles, Geneva and Batavia are the Tri-Cities, three river towns stacked along the Fox River in Kane County with historic downtowns, riverfront parks and the…

$300k–$1.2M

Wheaton & Glen Ellyn

Wheaton and Glen Ellyn are neighboring college towns on the Union Pacific West line, with downtowns built around their Metra stations, the Illinois Prairie Path running…

$350k–$1.2M