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Chicago opens in Lincoln Park: a 1,208 acre lakefront park with a free zoo and a Victorian glass conservatory, brownstone and greystone streets, and Armitage Avenue, Clark Street, and Lincoln Avenue carrying daily life, five miles from the Loop.
Metro Snapshot
Lincoln Park sets the first comparison points. Its MRED median sale price of $855,000 (closed sales July through September 2026, up 19 percent year over year, on 314 sales) buys a Walk Score of 94, an average one-bedroom apartment rent of $2,572 (Apartments.com, May 2026), and a taxi from Downtown Chicago of 5 miles in 6 minutes. Around it, the metro brackets the range: Lakeview trades the same lakefront north across Diversey Parkway, Old Town trades smaller scale streets south across North Avenue, and Andersonville trades an independent main street further north on Clark Street.
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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
Photo: Thshriver, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Around Lincoln Park sit its natural comparisons: Lakeview to the north, Old Town to the south, and Andersonville further north.