Chicago apartment rents this week
Typical starting rents at the buildings we track, by neighborhood and size. Every number comes from a price we verified on the building's own website in the last seven days. Nothing is estimated.
158 buildings verified · 1,393 floor plans · as of Nov 10, 2026
Across every building we track
Studios
$2,296
Middle half $2,026 to $2,534 · 120 buildings
1 bedroom
$2,809
Middle half $2,490 to $3,197 · 150 buildings
2 bedroom
$4,216
Middle half $3,790 to $4,838 · 114 buildings
We track mostly larger managed buildings downtown and on the North Side, so this describes those buildings, not every apartment in Chicago.
By neighborhood
| Neighborhood | Studios | 1 bedroom | 2 bedroom | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| River North | $2,410 | $2,894 | $4,379 | 28 of 31 buildings |
| West Loop | $2,324 | $2,896 | $4,270 | 19 of 19 buildings |
| Gold Coast | $2,082 | $2,494 | $4,447 | 14 of 16 buildings |
| Lakeview | $1,775 | $2,162 | $6,190 | 14 of 15 buildings |
| South Loop | $2,371 | $2,645 | $3,776 | 14 of 14 buildings |
| Fulton Market | $2,503 | $3,133 | $4,306 | 7 of 12 buildings |
| The Loop | $2,212 | $2,945 | $4,038 | 11 of 11 buildings |
| Streeterville | $2,790 | $3,396 | $4,950 | 10 of 10 buildings |
| Uptown | $1,685 | $2,394 | too few | 8 of 8 buildings |
| Lincoln Park | too few | $3,866 | $5,678 | 5 of 7 buildings |
| Old Town | $2,566 | $3,581 | too few | 5 of 6 buildings |
| Logan Square | too few | $2,663 | too few | 5 of 5 buildings |
"Too few" means fewer than four buildings had a verified price in that size this week. 7 more neighborhoods have a page but not yet enough verified prices in any size: River West, Fulton River District, Lakeshore East, Bucktown, Pilsen, UIC/Medical District and Wicker Park.
How we compute this
Which buildings
The apartment buildings Windy Apartments tracks in Chicago, mostly larger managed buildings downtown and on the North Side. A building counts only while its own website lists floor plans with prices.
What "verified" means
We check each building's website every day. A price counts here only if we confirmed it on that site within the last seven days. Older prices stay on the building's page with their check date, but they are left out of these numbers.
Typical rent and the middle half
Each floor plan's starting rent counts once. The typical rent is the median: half the plans start below it, half above. The middle half is the range from the 25th to the 75th percentile. We use medians because a few penthouses would drag an average up.
When a number is missing
A neighborhood and size get a number only when at least four buildings had a verified price. Three-bedroom and larger plans are left out everywhere: several buildings price those rooms individually, which would make them look cheaper than studios. A building whose only verified prices are for those sizes is not counted on this page, so its building count can run a little below the home page's.
How the change is measured
Every morning we store that day's typical rents. Once we have stored four weeks of mornings, the change next to a typical rent compares today's figure with the one we stored four weeks earlier, on the date shown. It appears only when both days had enough verified prices in that size, so a neighborhood that was "too few" four weeks ago shows no change yet.
How often it updates
These pages are rebuilt every morning from that day's checks. Each page says the date its numbers were last verified.