Carol Stream · DuPage County · IL
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Fountains at Town Center.
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About the community
Low-maintenance townhomes at the center of Carol Stream's Town Center node.
Fountains at Town Center is a compact attached-townhome community on the northwest side of the Gary Avenue and Lies Road intersection in Carol Stream, in Bloomingdale Township, DuPage County. Its streets are Bartholdi Court, Goldenhill Street, Maubert Court, Orangery Court, and Shaftesbury Street, reached from Lies Road via Fountain View Drive. DuPage County's subdivision records carry both a Fountains at Town Center plat recorded in 2005 and a Fountains at Town Center condominium plat recorded in 2007, which matches the construction window on the homes. One thing to get right: the adjacent retail strip carries the same name, so a search for Fountains at Town Center returns both the townhomes and the shops. They share a name and a driveway network.
At a glance
Three story townhomes, four per building
MLS classifies these as townhouses of three or more stories, built four units to a building, with the lowest level typically holding a bedroom or flex room.
Two car attached garages
Each home has a two car attached garage with direct interior access, plus an asphalt driveway. Balconies take the place of a private yard.
Fountain View Recreation Center nearby
The Park District's 90,846 square foot flagship on Gary Avenue, opened in 2013, with two indoor pools, a nine-lap-to-the-mile track, three basketball courts, and a fitness floor.
Shops and restaurants at the door
The Fountain View retail center on the community's driveway network holds bars, restaurants, a hair salon, a nail salon, and a dry cleaner.
Association handles the exterior
The monthly fee covers insurance, exterior maintenance, lawn care, and snow removal, so the roof, siding, grass, and shoveling are not your weekend.
District 93 and Glenbard North
Elementary and middle in Community Consolidated School District 93, high school in Glenbard Township District 87, with Glenbard North under a mile away.
Coral Cove Water Park close by
The Park District's Simkus Recreation Center and Coral Cove outdoor water park sit a short drive west on the same road the community fronts.
What’s close
The community sits at the northwest quadrant of Gary Avenue and Lies Road, the intersection the Village designates as its Town Center node.
- Schools
- Community Consolidated School District 93 for elementary and middle, with Cloverdale Elementary and Stratford Middle reported for addresses here, and Glenbard Township District 87 for high school at Glenbard North. Verify by address.
- Highway
- Gary Avenue and Lies Road are the local arterials, Army Trail Road is about half a mile north, and the Village routes I-355 access via Army Trail Road or North Avenue. I-88 is reached to the south.
- Train
- Carol Stream has no station. The Village lists West Chicago, Winfield, and Wheaton on the Union Pacific West line as the nearest, all roughly five miles away, so train commuters drive or connect by Pace bus.
- Hospital
- Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield, roughly five to six miles southwest, with a 24 hour emergency department and a separate pediatric emergency department.
- Shopping
- The Fountain View retail center is immediately adjacent. The Army Trail Road corridor and Bloomingdale Court retail sit roughly a mile to a mile and a half north.
- Recreation
- Fountain View Recreation Center on Gary Avenue, Simkus Recreation Center and Coral Cove Water Park on Lies Road, plus the Bark Park off-leash dog park and more than 40 park district parks and playgrounds.
What it’s actually like to live here
Fountains at Town Center is built for people who want a real house-sized floor plan without a house-sized weekend. These are three story attached homes with two car garages tucked underneath, four units to a building, and balconies instead of yards. Practically, the living space stacks vertically: garage and a flexible lower-level room at grade, the main living floor with the kitchen, fireplace, and balconies above it, and bedrooms plus a loft on top. Buyers coming from a ranch or split-level notice the stairs first and the storage second. Buyers coming from a condo notice that the association handles the roof, the siding, the lawn, and the snow, and that they still get a private garage and a front door of their own.
The location is the argument. The community's driveway network runs straight into a retail strip with a taproom, a taqueria, a Vietnamese restaurant, a sports bar, a salon, and a dry cleaner, and Lies Road takes you west in a couple of minutes to the Park District's Simkus Recreation Center and Coral Cove Water Park. The Park District's flagship Fountain View Recreation Center on Gary Avenue, a 90,846 square foot building with two indoor pools, an indoor track, and a large fitness floor, is close enough that listing agents describe it as walkable. Cloverdale Elementary and Glenbard North High School are both under a mile. Very few Chicago-area townhome communities put that much day-to-day infrastructure inside a half mile radius.
The tradeoffs are real and worth stating plainly. That same Town Center location means traffic: the Village counts more than 30,000 vehicles a day through Gary and Lies, and it is actively marketing the two eastern corners of that intersection for restaurants or retail, so assume the corner gets busier rather than quieter and walk the site at rush hour before deciding. This is attached ownership with a monthly assessment, shared walls, and common-area lots, which carries the benefits and the constraints of an association, including reserve studies, rules, and special assessment risk. There is no train in Carol Stream, so Metra riders drive roughly five miles to West Chicago, Winfield, or Wheaton. And these homes are approaching their twentieth year, so roofs, siding, water heaters, and HVAC are in the replacement window, which makes the association's reserve study more important reading than the dues number.
The questions buyers actually ask
Fountains at Town Center FAQ
The questions I get most from buyers shopping Fountains at Town Center. If yours isn't here, text 224-385-8779, same-day reply.
- What does the HOA actually cover?
- There is an active association here. Verified closed sales show monthly assessments in the low to high $200s, varying by unit and by year, covering insurance, exterior maintenance, lawn care, and snow removal. It does not appear to cover heat, electricity, or interior maintenance. Because the ownership form appears to be condominium, buyers receive an Illinois Condominium Property Act disclosure package including the budget, reserves, rules, and minutes. Ask for the current assessment, the budget, and the reserve study before you write an offer, and confirm pet limits.
- What are property taxes like?
- Roughly $7,000 – $11,000 per year, depending on home size and value. DuPage County assessor records are the source of truth. Happy to pull a specific bill on any home you're considering.
- What's the typical closing timeline?
- 30 to 45 days from accepted offer to keys. Cash deals can close in two weeks. Conventional financing is usually closer to 45.
- Are these townhomes or single-family detached homes?
- Attached townhomes. MLS records for addresses in the subdivision classify them as townhouses of three or more stories, built four units to a building, with two car attached garages, vinyl siding, full lower levels, and balconies rather than private yards. Lot dimensions are recorded as common area. At least one closed sale records the ownership form as condominium, consistent with the Fountains at Town Center condominium plat recorded with DuPage County in 2007, so expect a condominium-style disclosure package and confirm the ownership form for the specific unit.
- What does the association fee cover, and how much is it?
- The fee covers insurance, exterior maintenance, lawn care, and snow removal. Verified closed sales in the community show monthly assessments in the low to high $200s, varying by unit and by year. It does not appear to cover heat, electricity, or interior maintenance. Ask your agent for the current assessment, the budget, the reserve study, and the rules before you write an offer, and confirm pet limits, which listings show as cats and dogs allowed.
- What schools serve this community?
- Elementary and middle school students are in Community Consolidated School District 93 and high school students are in Glenbard Township High School District 87. Listings in the subdivision report Cloverdale Elementary School on Merbach Drive, Stratford Middle School in Bloomingdale, and Glenbard North High School on Kuhn Road, all within about a mile and a half. Attendance boundaries are set by the districts and can change, and District 93 notes its map can be inaccurate for houses along school or district borders, so verify the assignment for a specific address with the district before you buy.
- Is there a pool or clubhouse in the community?
- Not inside the association. There is no private clubhouse, pool, fitness room, or gate, and shared amenities are limited to landscaped common area, sidewalks, lighting, and stormwater detention. Some aggregator pages list a pool, tennis courts, and a restaurant, which are not supported by the individual listings and appear to be merged data fields. What you actually get is proximity: the Carol Stream Park District's Fountain View Recreation Center with two indoor pools and a fitness floor is on Gary Avenue, and Coral Cove Water Park is a short drive west on Lies Road.
- How is the commute, and is there a train?
- Carol Stream has no Metra station. The Village lists the nearest stations as West Chicago, Winfield, and Wheaton, all on the Union Pacific West line into Ogilvie and all roughly five miles away, so train commuters drive or connect by Pace bus. By car, Gary Avenue and Lies Road are the local arterials, Army Trail Road is about half a mile north, and the Village routes I-355 access through Army Trail Road or North Avenue. Northwestern Medicine Central DuPage Hospital in Winfield is about five to six miles southwest.
- What do homes cost, and what are property taxes like?
- These are mid-market attached homes in a village whose detached inventory is largely 1960s through 1990s. They sit toward the upper end of Carol Stream's attached-home spectrum because they are newer, larger, and three story with two car garages, while still pricing below most move-up detached product in the same school boundaries. For current pricing, check the Market snapshot on this page, which pulls live from the MLS. On taxes, Carol Stream composite rates ran in the mid-8s per $100 of equalized assessed value for 2024, and because DuPage assessed values lag sale prices and owner-occupants take the homestead exemption, real-world bills here have tended to land in the ballpark of roughly 2.0 to 2.5 percent of market value. Confirm the tax code and current bill per parcel.
- Who is the real estate agent for Fountains at Town Center?
- Joe Keegan is the local licensed Illinois real estate broker who covers Fountains at Town Center in Carol Stream, IL through Subdiview, a neighborhood-first home search for the Chicago suburbs and collar counties. Joe prices and negotiates from the live MRED sold comps for Fountains at Town Center specifically, not national averages, and can help you buy or sell here. Reach Joe at 224-385-8779 or joe@joekeeganhomes.com.
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When you're ready to tour or list, you want someone who has read the last 50 closed comps in this specific market, not a national average, and can tell you what they actually mean for your price. That's how I work. Text or call any time, and I'll give you a real take, not a brochure.
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Market snapshot
Fountains at Town Center, by the numbers
Live MRED data, refreshed daily. The numbers below tell you what this market is doing today, not what Zillow's algorithm thinks it might be doing six weeks from now.
Typical list price
$405,000
Typical sale price · last 90 days
$413,000
Avg time on market
4 days
Sold in the last year
9
This representation is based in whole or in part on data supplied by Midwest Real Estate Data, LLC for the period August 17, 2025 through August 17, 2026. Midwest Real Estate Data, LLC does not guarantee nor is it in any way responsible for its accuracy. Data maintained by Midwest Real Estate Data LLC may not reflect all real estate activity in the market.
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Schools serving Fountains at Town Center
Where Fountains at Town Center homes go to school
Homes in Fountains at Town Center are most often zoned to Glenbard North HS. Open a school to see its area, the district, and every home for sale that feeds it.
School assignment is derived from the school the MRED listing agent entered and is not a guarantee. Always verify current attendance boundaries with the district before writing an offer.
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