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Illinois opens in Chicago, with Lincoln Park: a 1,208 acre lakefront park, a free zoo, and brownstone streets where Armitage Avenue, Clark Street, and Lincoln Avenue carry daily life, five miles from the Loop.
One Illinois cost runs through every report in the state: property tax. Illinois levies a flat 4.95 percent state income tax, and retirement income is fully exempt, but the statewide effective property tax rate is about 1.88 percent, among the highest in the country. Price the tax bill with the house, every time.
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Lakefront neighborhoods and vintage streets on the North Side, starting with Lincoln Park.
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Lincoln Park, Chicago, Illinois
Lincoln Park is Chicago's lakefront all-rounder: a 1,208 acre park with a free zoo and a Victorian glass conservatory on one side, and on the other, brownstone and greystone streets where Armitage Avenue, Clark Street, and Lincoln Avenue carry the daily shopping, eating, and drinking, with the Loop about five miles south.
Median $855,000Walk Score 94Taxi from downtown Chicago 5 miles, 6 minutes
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