Homes in the
Lincoln-Way East district.

Living in Frankfort feels like getting the best of two worlds. The village's historic downtown is the heart of it all, anchored by the restored Frankfort Grainery, the open lawn of Breidert Green, and a walkable stretch of shops and restaurants that fill up for the long-running Frankfort Fall Festival. Running right through it is the Old Plank Road Trail, a paved 22-mile recreation path that lets you bike or walk from the middle of town out into open country, and it is one of the features residents cite most when they talk about why they love it here.

Commuters have real options. Frankfort sits about 28 miles southwest of downtown Chicago, with Metra service nearby on the SouthWest Service and Rock Island lines through neighboring communities, plus easy reach to US 30 (Lincoln Highway) and US 45 (La Grange Road), which cross right in the middle of the village, and Interstate 80 just to the north. That combination of small-town pace and big-city access is a big part of the draw.

The housing here leans toward spacious single-family homes on generous lots, in a community where most households are married couples and median household income is well into six figures. Frankfort is the kind of place where people buy with the long game in mind: established neighborhoods, mature trees, and the pull of a top-rated school district keep families here through the school years and beyond.