🏛

Why people love it

The Ridge Historic District, one of the largest urban landmark districts in the country, on Chicago's only significant hill.

🚆

What's drawing people

Four Metra stations inside the neighborhood, thirty minutes to downtown.

🏠

The value

A house market, not a building market. Up 66% since 2013 with almost no volatility.

What people say about Beverly

Beverly houses went from about $238,000 in 2013 to about $395,000 in 2025, roughly 66%. — Cook County Assessor
That is about 4.3% a year, on 399 or more sales per rolling window. — Cook County Assessor
Small multi-unit buildings sell here at a rate of fewer than ten a year, which is why this page charts houses. — Cook County Assessor

Beverly is where Chicago has a hill, and everything about the neighborhood follows from that one geographic accident.

The Blue Island Ridge runs through it, the only significant elevation change in the city, and the streets bend around it in a way that looks nothing like the Chicago grid. The Ridge Historic District covers a large part of the neighborhood and is one of the biggest urban landmark districts in the country, with a serious collection of Prairie School and Queen Anne houses, including work by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Four Metra Rock Island stations sit inside the neighborhood boundaries, which is more than most suburbs have, and downtown is about thirty minutes.

This is a house market and I am not going to pretend otherwise. Fewer than ten small multi-unit buildings sell here in a typical year, so there is no two-flat median worth publishing. Houses ran a median near $395,000 in 2025 against about $238,000 in 2013, up roughly 66%, or 4.3% a year, on a sample of 399 or more.

That series is remarkably smooth. No spike in 2021, no dip after. Beverly behaves like a suburb inside the city limits, which is exactly what its buyers want.

If you want a building, this is not the place and I would send you to Auburn Gresham or Chatham. If you want a house with architecture, a yard, a hill and a Metra stop, there is nothing else quite like it in Chicago.

Last updated August 2026.