Yep, a couple of years ago the house I grew up in (NW Suburbs of Chicago) was listed at half a million dollars (only 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 baths, and a partially finished basement)! The price went up a quarter of a million dollars in 7 years (I think my parents sold the house for roughly double what they bought it for in the mid-70s — and that was after 20 years of living in it)!
It’s definitely NOT going for that price now. In fact, many of my childhood friends are using this “opportunity” to move back home — because they were totally priced out of the area just a couple years ago...
My wife is from Elgin. Her sister lives in Woodstock. Her parents live in Huntley. We were just visiting our son, daughter in law and grand children in Rockford last week. We go there about three times a year.
My wife just got back from returning our grandson last weekend. At the area where she put him in our daughter in law’s car she had a knock down dragout verbal fight with one of the female police officers controlling that area that had her in tears. When I was with her a week before we asked one of the male police officers if it was ok for cars to pick up people there. He said it was no problem. This lady would not listen to reason. She would not listen at all. She shouted my wife down and yelled at my daughter in law even as she had her turn signal on and was trying to merge into traffic to take another loop around. I would have cold cocked that bit$$ in self defense and we would have driven off.
I really, REALLY hate the Cook County area and spend as little time there as possible.