Your Guide to Buying a Home in Skokie, IL

Buying a Home in Skokie, Illinois

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Skokie is located in Cook County

Four-star hotels, delightful restaurants, symphonies, a thriving economy and unlimited shopping opportunities, all just a 30-minute train ride from downtown Chicago. Add to this the quality schools and appealing housing one expects in an upscale suburb with a village sensibility and charm.

Skokie celebrates cultural diversity and encourages contact and activity, through festivals, neighborhood block parties and our extensive parks and recreational offerings. Careful planning and superior municipal services make Skokie a safe and accommodating place to visit, work and spend a lifetime. Employment, educational, recreational and cultural opportunities are the backbone of our village. We invite you to share the rich resources of our community.

Skokie residents enjoy a quality, upscale housing stock supported by outstanding village services that include sidewalk snow plowing, garbage pick up twice weekly, a comprehensive recycling program and a prudent fiscal policy that has seen no increase in the municipal property tax rate since 1990.

Housing styles typically are ranch, two-story, split-level or Georgian. Prices range from $135,000 to $1.3 million with a median home value of $249,196.

Townhouses and condominiums are becoming more popular, too, particularly with the construction of new condominiums downtown. Such residences cost between $66,000 and $324,000 with a median value of $150,409.

Skokie's impressive economic breadth has resulted in very reasonable residential property taxes compared to neighboring communities.

In Skokie, recreation means the Skokie Park District. With 43 parks, two aquatic centers, a new rowing facility, children's and historical museums, community theater, a beautiful fitness center, golf facilities, nature center, youth foundation, sports fields, ice skating rink, child care and other facilities, the district offers a surprising array of programming for people of all ages. 

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