Oak Brook · DuPage County · IL
Homes for sale in
Oak Brook.
- Active listings
- 31
- Median list
- $979K
- Avg time on market
- 20 days
- Sold · last year
- 172
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About the community
Living in Oak Brook.
Oak Brook sits in central DuPage County, about 16 miles west of the Loop, and it punches far above its weight. Only about 8,000 people live here, but the daytime population swells as employees pour into one of the densest corporate-HQ corridors in the Midwest, home to Ace Hardware, Portillo's, Federal Signal, TreeHouse Foods, CenterPoint, Lions Clubs International, and, until 2018, McDonald's. That commercial base does something rare for residential buyers: it underwrites public services, so Oak Brook has no municipal property tax and the lowest combined commercial-and-residential tax rate among 34 DuPage communities. The village is also a destination, not a pass-through, anchored by Oakbrook Center (the largest open-air mall in the contiguous U.S.), Butler National Golf Club, the Oak Brook Polo Club, and The Drake Oak Brook. There is no Metra stop inside the village, so this is a drive-first community with quick I-88, I-294, and I-290 access. Most addresses feed Butler School District 53 (K-8) and Hinsdale Township High School District 86, with Hinsdale Central regularly ranked among Illinois's top public high schools.
At a glance
~8,200 residents
Population was 8,163 at the 2020 census, small and executive-skewed but with a daytime population that swells with corporate workers.
Corporate HQ corridor
Ace Hardware, Portillo's, Federal Signal, TreeHouse Foods, CenterPoint, and Lions Clubs International all headquartered here.
Oakbrook Center
Largest open-air shopping center in the contiguous U.S., with 160+ stores including Nordstrom, Macy's, and Apple.
Butler National Golf Club
Private, invitation-only George Fazio course that hosted the PGA Tour's Western Open from 1974 to 1990.
No Metra in village
Closest stops are Hinsdale on the BNSF line and Elmhurst on the UP-W line, each about 10 minutes away.
Butler 53 + Hinsdale 86
Butler School District 53 (K-8) feeds Hinsdale Township District 86, with Hinsdale Central as the boundary high school for most addresses.
No municipal property tax
Commercial base subsidizes residential. Lowest combined commercial-and-residential rate among 34 DuPage communities.
Oak Brook Polo Club
Founded 1922 by Paul Butler. The Prince of Wales Field is still in play.
What’s close
Oak Brook is laid out as a planned community: the residential blocks sit west and south of the village core in large, wooded subdivisions, while the commercial spine runs along 22nd Street / Cermak Road and the I-88 / Route 83 (Kingery Highway) interchange on the east side.
- Oakbrook Center
- 160-acre open-air mall at the east edge of the village, originally opened 1962 with Sears and Marshall Field's.
- Former McDonald's World Headquarters
- On Jorie Boulevard and Kroc Drive. McDonald's left for the West Loop in 2018, freeing a major campus for redevelopment.
- I-88 / 22nd Street corporate corridor
- Office parks for Ace Hardware, TreeHouse Foods, Federal Signal, and Lions Clubs International.
- Butler National Golf Club
- Private course south of 31st Street. PGA Western Open host 1974 to 1990.
- The Drake Oak Brook + Oak Brook Polo Club
- The Drake opened in 1961 as a Chicago Drake extension. Polo plays adjacent on the Prince of Wales Field.
- Hinsdale Central HS feeder area
- Most Oak Brook addresses are in Hinsdale Township High School District 86, with Hinsdale Central as the boundary school.
What it’s actually like to live here
Oak Brook is, by design, a premium-tier suburb. The 2023 median household income is about $171,123 and the median age is 51.7, an executive-and-empty-nester skew that you can feel walking through any subdivision. The housing stock splits cleanly: large-lot custom homes (many on one-acre-plus parcels) west and south of the village, mid-rise condos and townhomes clustered near Oakbrook Center and along 22nd Street, and a smaller pool of golf-course-adjacent estates near Butler National and the polo grounds. Zillow's average Oak Brook home value is about $849,000 as of 2025, up roughly 6.7 percent year over year.
What people actually buy here is the combination: a short drive to a high-paying corporate job, a top-five-in-Illinois public elementary district, a Hinsdale Central diploma, the country's largest open-air mall as your grocery-and-errands hub, and a residential tax bill that does not punish you for any of it. Oak Brook has no municipal property tax, and its combined effective rate sits at the bottom of DuPage County thanks to the commercial base. Layer on the Polo Club, Butler National, The Drake's Polo Lounge, and Mayslake's wooded trails, and you get a suburb that quietly behaves like a private club.
Neighborhoods
Detailed Oak Brook 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.
Schools
Districts serving Oak Brook.
Boundary lines do shift. Always confirm in writing for a specific address before writing an offer.
- D53Grades Pre-K – 8
Butler School District 53
Schools serving the area
- Brook Forest Elementary
- Butler Junior High
Two-building district serving the bulk of Oak Brook. About 500 students, multiple National Blue Ribbon recognitions, consistently a top-three Illinois district on state tests, AAA bond rating.
- HTHSD86Grades 9 – 12
Hinsdale Township High School District 86
Schools serving the area
- Hinsdale Central High School
- Hinsdale South High School
Hinsdale Central is the boundary school for most Oak Brook addresses (about 2,450 students, 2021 National Blue Ribbon, U.S. News #9 in Illinois). The district also serves Hinsdale, Burr Ridge, Clarendon Hills, Darien, Westmont, and Willowbrook. Some northern Oak Brook addresses may fall into Salt Creek SD 48, verify by address.
From the neighborhood
Around Oak Brook
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What there is to do in Oak Brook.
A handful of the places people who live here actually use. Not a directory.
- Shopping
Oakbrook Center
Largest open-air shopping center in the contiguous U.S., anchored by Nordstrom, Macy's, and Apple, with 160+ stores.
- Culture
Mayslake Peabody Estate
1919-1922 Tudor Revival mansion built for coal magnate Francis Stuyvesant Peabody, now on the National Register and run by the DuPage Forest Preserve on a 90-acre preserve.
- Parks
Fullersburg Woods Forest Preserve
Wooded preserve along Salt Creek with trails, an interpretive center, and the Graue Mill site.
- Culture
Graue Mill & Museum
1852 working water-powered gristmill and one of three authenticated Illinois Underground Railroad stations, at 3800 York Road.
- Parks
Butler National Golf Club
Private, George Fazio-designed course (7,523 yards from the tips) that hosted the PGA Western Open 1974 to 1990. Invitation-only but iconic.
- Culture
Drury Lane Theatre
971-seat live theater and dinner-theater venue at 100 Drury Lane in adjacent Oakbrook Terrace, open since 1984, a short drive from Oak Brook.
Getting around
Commute + transit from Oak Brook.
DriveBy car
- Routes: I-88 (Reagan Memorial Tollway) · I-294 (Tri-State Tollway) · I-290 (Eisenhower) · IL Route 83 (Kingery Highway) · 22nd Street / Cermak Road · Roosevelt Road · York Road
- O'Hare Airport: ~20 min
- Chicago Loop: ~30 min
- Midway Airport: ~25 min
By the numbers
Oak Brook taxes + market stats.
Property tax rates vary by exact township and assessor district. Confirm per address before pricing a purchase.
Property tax rate
1.32%
effective avg
Sales tax
7.50%
combined
Median sold price
$750,000
MRED · last 12 mo (172 sales)
Median household income
$171,123
ACS
How Oak Brook got here
A bit of history.
The area was first settled in the 1830s as Fullersburg, named for early settler Ben Fuller. The modern village is the vision of Paul Butler, son of a Hinsdale dairy farmer, who in 1922 founded the Oak Brook Polo Club and over the next three decades assembled thousands of acres of farmland, polo fields, stables for 400 horses, and a private golf operation. By 1956 the club had 14 polo fields and games six days a week, briefly making Oak Brook the polo capital of the United States. The Village of Oak Brook was incorporated on February 21, 1958, with just one square mile and 103 residents, most of the land controlled by Butler himself.
Butler designed the village around low residential density and a powerful commercial tax base, a model that pulled in The Drake Oak Brook (a 1961 extension of the Chicago hotel) and Oakbrook Center, which opened in 1962 on a 160-acre site with Sears and Marshall Field's. McDonald's moved its world headquarters here in 1971 and stayed until 2018, when the company decamped for the West Loop. Butler National Golf Club, designed by George Fazio on the former York Country Club property, opened in 1974 and hosted the PGA Tour's Western Open from 1974 to 1990. The pattern still defines the village: a small residential population sheltered behind a deep commercial moat.
The questions buyers actually ask
Oak Brook FAQ
The questions I get most from buyers shopping Oak Brook. If yours isn't here, text 224-385-8779, same-day reply.
- What schools serve Oak Brook?
- Most addresses are in Butler School District 53 (K-8), with Brook Forest Elementary and Butler Junior High, and Hinsdale Township High School District 86, where Hinsdale Central High School is the boundary school for the majority of the village. A handful of northern Oak Brook addresses fall into Salt Creek SD 48 or other adjacent districts, so verify by exact address.
- How do people commute from Oak Brook?
- It is a drive-first village. There is no Metra station inside Oak Brook. The closest stops are Hinsdale on the BNSF line and Elmhurst on the UP-W line, each about 10 minutes away, with roughly a 30-minute ride to downtown Chicago. Most residents simply use I-88, I-294, I-290, or Route 83.
- Where should I look in Oak Brook?
- Three patterns: large-lot custom homes on one-acre-plus parcels in the older subdivisions west and south of the village, condos and townhomes near Oakbrook Center and the 22nd Street corridor, and golf-course-adjacent estates near Butler National and the polo grounds.
- Are property taxes really lower in Oak Brook?
- Yes. Oak Brook has no municipal property tax, and the village is ranked first of 34 DuPage County communities for the lowest combined commercial-and-residential tax rate, with an effective rate around 1.32 percent, the lowest in the county. The huge commercial tax base subsidizes residential.
- What changed when McDonald's left for the West Loop?
- McDonald's moved its world headquarters from Oak Brook to Chicago's Fulton Market in 2018, ending a 47-year run that began in 1971. The departure freed up a large campus on the east side of the village for redevelopment, but the broader corporate base (Ace Hardware, Portillo's, TreeHouse Foods, Federal Signal, CenterPoint, Lions Clubs International, and others) kept the commercial tax base intact.
- Why is Oak Brook consistently a top luxury market in the western metro?
- Because it stacks the things that drive premium pricing: a Hinsdale Central feeder, a top-three-in-Illinois K-8 district (Butler 53), the lowest residential tax rate in DuPage, one-acre-plus lots, a private golf-and-polo culture (Butler National, Oak Brook Polo Club, The Drake), and the country's largest open-air mall as your daily errand run.
- Is there public transit at all?
- Pace bus serves Oak Brook and connects to Metra stations and the CTA Blue Line at Forest Park, but Oak Brook is fundamentally built around the car. The Oakbrook Center area is the main hub for transfers.
Nearby
Towns next to Oak Brook.
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Your local agent
Joe knows Oak Brook
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