Streeterville · Cook County · IL
Homes for sale in
Streeterville.
- Active listings
- 40
- Median list
- $725K
- Avg time on market
- 62 days
- Sold · last year
- 0
Active listings
40 homes on the market
About the community
Living in Streeterville.
Streeterville sits on the Near North Side, tucked east of Michigan Avenue and north of the Chicago River, with Lake Michigan wrapping its eastern and northern edges. It is a dense, vertical neighborhood of residential high-rises, hotels, hospitals, and cultural venues, and it draws its name from George Streeter, the squatter who once claimed the lakefill as his own. Today it is one of the most walkable corners of the city, with a Walk Score around 94 and the Magnificent Mile running right along its western border. Residents live minutes from Navy Pier, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the sprawling Northwestern Medicine and Northwestern University campuses. The housing stock is almost entirely condos, from mid-rise classics to glassy lakefront towers. If you want downtown energy with a beach and a lakefront park at the end of the block, this is the place.
At a glance
Population
Roughly 15,880 residents per the 2019-2023 American Community Survey 5-year estimates, packed into a small lakefront footprint.
Density
One of the densest neighborhoods in the city at about 97,000 people per square mile.
Housing stock
Inventory is almost entirely condos, from mid-rise buildings to lakefront high-rise towers, with essentially no single-family homes.
Transit
The Grand and Chicago Red Line stations sit on the western edge, with the 66, 151, and 29 CTA bus routes and Divvy bikes filling in the lakefront gaps.
Signature draws
Navy Pier, the Magnificent Mile, the Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Northwestern campuses are all inside or bordering the neighborhood.
Price character
Condo-driven pricing with a recent median sale price around $515K, so budgets stretch from entry studios to luxury lake-view towers.
Walkability
A Walk Score near 94 means most daily errands, dining, and shopping are an easy stroll away.
Lakefront
Ohio Street Beach, Milton Lee Olive Park, and the Lakefront Trail give residents sand and green space right at the water's edge.
What it’s actually like to live here
Day to day, Streeterville feels like the most livable slice of downtown. You can grab groceries and coffee, walk the Magnificent Mile for shopping, catch an exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, and still be at the lakefront within minutes, with Ohio Street Beach, Milton Lee Olive Park, and the Lakefront Trail right there for swims, runs, and skyline views. The neighborhood skews toward working professionals and downtown commuters, with a median age around 36.6 and a large medical and university presence anchored by Northwestern. It is highly walkable, so many residents lean on foot, bus, bike, and rideshare rather than a car, though the lakefront blocks sit a 15-to-18-minute walk from the nearest Red Line stop.
Neighborhoods
Detailed Streeterville community pages coming soon.
Browse the listings above. Detailed neighborhood pages with market stats, school info, and lifestyle take-downs land here as we roll them out.
Around town
What there is to do in Streeterville.
A handful of the places people who live here actually use. Not a directory.
- Family
Navy Pier
Chicago's most visited attraction juts into Lake Michigan with rides, the Centennial Wheel, the Chicago Children's Museum, gardens, and skyline views.
- Culture
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
One of the largest contemporary art venues in the world, sitting just off Michigan Avenue at 220 E Chicago Ave.
- Parks
Ohio Street Beach
A north-facing lakefront beach whose unusual orientation makes it a favorite training spot for open-water swimmers.
- Parks
Milton Lee Olive Park
A ten-acre Dan Kiley-designed park on a lakefront peninsula honoring Vietnam veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Milton L. Olive III.
- Shopping
The Magnificent Mile
The Michigan Avenue shopping corridor along Streeterville's western edge, lined with flagship stores, department stores, and hotels.
- Family
Chicago Children's Museum
A hands-on museum for families located right on Navy Pier.
How Streeterville got here
A bit of history.
Streeterville owes its existence to landfill, not nature. In the late 1880s, George Wellington Streeter (known as Cap Streeter) claimed his boat ran aground on a sandbar off the Chicago shoreline, and he and his wife Maria began filling the gap between the bar and the shore with rubble, charging building owners to dump construction debris and trash there. Streeter declared the new land his own independent territory, which he called the District of Lake Michigan, and defended his claim for decades, at times by force. The courts finally ruled against his claim of sovereignty in 1918.
Around the same time, the Lincoln Park Board added landfill to build Lake Shore Drive, creating roughly 186 acres of new lakefront land. The 1920 opening of the Michigan Avenue Bridge, part of the 1909 Burnham Plan, plus the economic boom of the 1920s, turned this eastern stretch of the Near North Side into prime real estate. Landmarks including the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Wrigley Building, Tribune Tower, Northwestern University buildings, and the Magnificent Mile were all eventually built on what had started as turn-of-the-century fill.
The questions buyers actually ask
Streeterville FAQ
The questions I get most from buyers shopping Streeterville. If yours isn't here, text 815-355-0582, same-day reply.
- What should I expect for condo assessments and HOA fees in Streeterville?
- Streeterville is a condo neighborhood, and full-amenity high-rises commonly run roughly $800 to $1,500 or more per month in assessments, which typically cover building operations, staffing, reserves, and major systems like elevators, roofs, and the exterior envelope. Before buying, have your attorney review the Illinois Section 22.1 disclosure, which spells out the association's finances, reserve balance, and any approved or pending special assessments.
- Are special assessments a real risk in these older high-rises?
- Yes, they can be significant. Elevators alone typically need a full modernization every 25 to 30 years and can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars per cab, so buildings without strong reserves often fund big projects through special assessments. Agents recommend asking about assessments levied in the last 3 to 5 years and any anticipated in the next 12 to 24 months.
- How does parking work, and is it included?
- Parking is not automatic in Streeterville condos. Confirm whether a space is a deeded unit, an assigned spot, or a separate monthly fee, since it can change both your price and your monthly cost.
- What is the neighborhood public school, and is it well regarded?
- The neighborhood attendance school for grades K-8 is Ogden International School of Chicago, which draws from Streeterville, River North, the Gold Coast, and nearby areas. Ogden is the only full pre-K-12 public International Baccalaureate continuum in Illinois and one of the most diverse schools in the Chicago Public Schools district.
Your local agent
Joe knows Streeterville
Most agents will list anything. I focus on the places I actually know, and the things that move value here don't show up in the MLS write-up: which streets and buildings hold demand, what the HOA or assessments really cover, how the comps read once you account for condition and location, and where buyers consistently want to be.
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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- Comp-driven pricing
- Streeterville specialist
- Honest local market take
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