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Why people love it

You can own an 1880s brick rowhouse inside a national park, with a Metra Electric stop at 111th and another at Kensington. Nobody else in Chicago can say that.

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What's drawing people

Pullman became a national monument in 2015, a national historical park in 2022, and the restored Clock Tower visitor center opened in 2021. The factory district came back to life around it: Method's soap plant opened in 2015 with a Gotham Greens greenhouse covering its entire roof, and the 150,000 square foot Whole Foods Midwest distribution center opened in 2018 with a 60 percent local hiring target.

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The value

Historic rowhouses traded at a $185,000 median over the last three years. That is a protected, irreplaceable product at a starter home price, in a market where North Pullman houses have roughly tripled from their mid decade lows.

What people say about Pullman

33 historic rowhouse sales in the 111th to 115th blocks at a $185,000 median, 2023 to 2025.
North Pullman single family homes: $209,888 median on the current window, up from about $70,000 in 2012 to 2014.
56 two flat and small multifamily sales around the historic section at a $267,500 median.

You can own an 1880s brick rowhouse inside a national park, with a Metra Electric stop at 111th and another at Kensington.

Pullman is the company town George Pullman built in the 1880s, designed by Solon Beman with about 1,300 brick rowhouses that had indoor plumbing when most of Chicago did not. The 1894 strike made national labor history here, and the whole district is now run in partnership with the National Park Service. It is a neighborhood where the architecture is the identity.

The housing is unlike anywhere else I cover: rows of red brick worker cottages and larger officer homes in the historic core, then bungalows and frame houses in North Pullman between 95th and 103rd. Preservation standards keep the historic blocks intact, which also keeps supply permanently limited.

The market found its floor in the mid 2010s, when North Pullman houses traded in the $66,000 to $70,000 range, and it has climbed steadily since, reaching $209,888 in the current window. The park designation, the Method and Gotham Greens plants, and the Whole Foods distribution center each brought jobs and attention that show up in these numbers.

Pullman fits a buyer who wants history they can live in and is willing to care for it, and an investor who values a fixed supply of a product nobody can build more of. I would rather own a rowhouse here than a condo in a lot of neighborhoods that cost twice as much.

Last updated August 2026.