Cicero

Cicero sits directly west of Little Village across the city line, and it is built the same way: block after block of brick two-flats, three-flats and cottages, put up for workers at the Hawthorne Works and the industry that surrounded it.

The county counts 5,131 parcels classed as 2-to-6 unit buildings here. For scale, Berwyn next door has 3,025 and Oak Park has 1,036. If inventory is what you need, this is where it is.

The Pink Line terminates at 54th and Cermak inside Cicero, and the Metra BNSF line stops here too, which puts downtown under half an hour by either.

County records put the median two unit sale at $365,900 over the twelve months ending May 2026, across 101 arms length sales, with the middle half between $277,000 and $412,000. On three year medians the figure ran $247,000 for 2019 through 2021 and $315,000 for 2023 through 2025. That is a deep, liquid market by suburban standards.

The rent picture needs care. Two-bedrooms at about $1,350 are down 10% over the year and three-bedrooms at $2,250 are down 6%, while the overall median is up 5%. Mixed signals on a small listing sample, so I would underwrite conservatively rather than assuming rent growth.

Cicero also has a long and complicated municipal history that affects permitting and inspections in ways that matter to an owner. That is a real cost of doing business here and worth understanding before you close, not after.