Neighborhoods · Far Northwest Side
Why people love it
A quiet, affluent enclave of Sauganash and Edgebrook, with forest-preserve borders, golf courses, and oversized suburban-style lots inside the city.
What's drawing people
Some of the city's top-rated schools, a very low crime profile, and a 25-minute Metra ride to downtown from the Forest Glen station.
The value
A stable, high-income, owner-occupied market. This is a hold-for-generations family enclave, not a quick-flip play.
What people say about Forest Glen
Welcome to Forest Glen, one of Chicago's quietest and most affluent corners. Made up of Sauganash, Edgebrook, and Old Edgebrook, it offers oversized lots, top schools, and a genuinely suburban pace, all within the city limits and a short Metra ride from downtown.
Forest Glen doesn't get much attention in the Chicago press, and residents tend to like it that way. Bordered by the North Branch of the Chicago River and forest-preserve land, dotted with golf courses, and laced with the Sauganash and North Branch trails, it feels worlds away from the pace of the city center while sitting just a few miles from it.
The housing is overwhelmingly single-family, well-preserved homes built mostly between the 1920s and 1960s on large, tree-lined lots that create a suburban density inside the city. Direct Metra access at the Forest Glen station puts downtown within about 25 minutes.
This is one of the city's more affluent community areas, with a median household income above $100,000, high educational attainment, and strong safety marks, helped by a police station right in the neighborhood. Schools are a major draw: Sauganash Elementary earns a perfect 10, and the area consistently ranks among the best places to live in Illinois.
Home values reflect that desirability, with a median around $544,000 and plenty of properties well into seven figures. Unlike the two-flat markets elsewhere on this site, Forest Glen is primarily an owner-occupied, single-family enclave, the play here is a premium family home to hold, not a rental building to cash-flow.
Life here is slower-paced and residential. You'll travel a bit for fine dining and nightlife, but you gain quiet streets, mature trees, golf, forest preserves, and a tight, stable community that people rarely leave.
Whether you're raising a family or looking for a lasting home in one of the city's safest, most established neighborhoods, Forest Glen offers a rare kind of suburban calm without ever leaving Chicago.
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