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Why people love it

Brick two-flats and bungalows on tight blocks, indistinguishable from the Chicago side of the line except for the taxes and the schools.

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What's drawing people

Metra Milwaukee District West stops here, and the Kennedy is minutes away.

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The value

Up about 17% from the 2019 to 2021 window to a $420,000 median, steady through every year of the series.

What people say about Elmwood Park

Two unit buildings in Elmwood Park sold at a median of $420,000 over the two years ending May 2026, on 19 arms length sales, up about 17% from the 2019 to 2021 window. (Cook County Assessor)
The series has no down year in thirteen. (Cook County Assessor)
Elmwood Park has 850 parcels classed as 2-to-6 units. (Cook County Assessor)

Elmwood Park is what happens when a Chicago bungalow neighborhood ends up on the other side of the city line. Same buildings, different tax bill and different schools.

The village sits directly against Montclare and Belmont Cragin, and walking across Harlem Avenue you would not know you had changed municipalities. Same brick two-flats, same bungalows, same tight lots, same era.

What changes is the tax rate and the school district, and for a lot of buyers that is the entire reason they are looking here rather than three blocks east.

Metra's Milwaukee District West line stops in Elmwood Park with a straight run to Union Station, and the Kennedy is a few minutes north. The town is compact enough to be genuinely walkable in parts.

County records put the median two unit sale at $420,000 over the two years ending May 2026, across 19 arms length sales, with the middle half between $300,000 and $464,000. On three year medians the figure ran $360,000 for 2019 through 2021 and $420,000 for 2023 through 2025. As in Jefferson Park across the line, the series has no down year in it.

Inventory is the limit: 850 parcels classed as 2-to-6 units, with roughly 48 to 90 sales in a rolling window. This is a wait-for-the-right-one market, not a shop-around one.

Price of a 2-flat

Two-flats near $420K

Typical sale price of a 2-unit building, over time

19

arms length two unit sales in that window

+17%

vs the 2019 to 2021 median

Rounded three year medians, 2013 through 2025: $173K, $179K, $195K, $247K, $248K, $259K, $277K, $323K, $360K, $365K, $370K, $378K, and $420K.

Median sale price of two unit buildings in Elmwood Park. The line is a three year rolling median, so one odd month cannot swing it. The $420,000 figure is the median of 19 two unit sales in the two years ending May 2026, and the middle half of those sales ran $300,000 to $464,000. Sales in 2011 through 2013 were dominated by foreclosures and bank resales, so the left end of the line is a distressed market rather than a normal one. Source: Cook County Assessor sale records, buildings recorded with exactly two apartments, arms length sales only, one parcel per sale.

Rents · per unit

Typical rent per unit

$2,700

2 bed · 1 bath

$3,420

3 bed · 1 bath

Typical rent per unit, 2 to 3 bed, using Logan Square figures as the nearest published Northwest Side benchmark. Source: Zumper, August 2026.

Last updated September 2026.

Nearby, and next steps

Nearby guides: Montclare · Melrose Park · Dunning.

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