Logan Square neighborhood in Chicago

Logan Square Homes for Sale | Boulevard Mansions to Bungalows

Stone mansions on the landmarked boulevards, greystones, brick bungalows, two-flats, and condominiums between Diversey Parkway and Bloomingdale Avenue.

Logan Square at a Glance

Population
Approximately 70,900 (Logan Square community area, 2019 to 2023 American Community Survey five-year estimates)
Size
Approximately
3.23 square miles
community area 22
Median Sale Price, Attached
Approximately
$507,500
February 2026, 65 closed sales in 90 days, Midwest Real Estate Data MLS
Sale to List Price
Approximately
99 percent
with a 0 percent price reduction rate across the same 90 days
Fastest Price Band
The $450,000 to $500,000 band cleared in approximately 6 days. The highest-volume band, $300,000 to $350,000, averaged approximately 57 days.
Other Reported Medians
Approximately
$557,500 to $732,450
depending on source and whether detached homes are included. Condominiums reported near $425,000, single-family averaging near $823,250.
Historic Districts
Two Chicago Landmark districts: the Logan Square Boulevards District (National Register 1985, Chicago Landmark 2005, 265 acres) and the Milwaukee-Diversey-Kimball District covering the business strip
Transit
CTA Blue Line at Logan Square, California, and Western, 24-hour service, with a bus terminal at Logan Square. The 606 greenway ends at Ridgeway Avenue.
ZIP Codes
Parts of 60647, 60618, 60639, 60622, and 60614

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (2019 to 2023 American Community Survey five-year estimates), Midwest Real Estate Data MLS figures as reported in a brokerage market summary dated February 28, 2026, National Register of Historic Places and Commission on Chicago Landmarks records, and Chicago Transit Authority. Note that portal neighborhood data for Logan Square was approximately eighteen months out of date when checked in August 2026, so MLS figures are used in preference. All market figures should be confirmed against MRED and reviewed quarterly.

Neighborhood Guide

Logan Square Real Estate
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Where Pricing Into the Right Band Matters

Logan Square is a Northwest Side Chicago community area built around 2.5 miles of landmarked boulevard, and the range of Logan Square homes for sale here is wider than the neighborhood's reputation suggests. Officially community area 22, it covers about 3.23 square miles, bounded by Diversey Parkway on the north, the North Branch of the Chicago River on the east, Bloomingdale Avenue on the south, and Kenton Avenue on the west, with roughly 70,900 residents. It takes its name from John A. Logan, and it contains five named neighborhoods: Logan Square itself, Palmer Square, Belmont Gardens, Kosciuszko Park, and Bucktown, which is covered on its own page.

Local Highlights & Amenities

What to Love About Logan Square

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    Two and a Half Miles of Landmarked Boulevard

    The Logan Square Boulevards Historic District covers 265 acres along Logan, Kedzie, and Humboldt Boulevards, with grassy landscaped medians running down the centre and stone mansions, greystones, and bungalows lining both sides. Listed on the National Register in 1985 and designated a Chicago Landmark district in 2005.

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    The Illinois Centennial Monument

    A 70-foot marble column stands in the traffic circle where Logan and Kedzie Boulevards meet, dedicated in 1918 for the state's centennial. It was designed by Henry Bacon, architect of the Lincoln Memorial, with sculpture by Evelyn Beatrice Longman, the first woman elected a full member of the National Academy of Design.

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    A Dining Strip With National Recognition

    Lula Cafe on Kedzie Boulevard and Longman & Eagle on Kedzie Avenue anchor a restaurant scene that draws from across the city, with Mi Tocaya Antojeria on Logan Boulevard, Parson's Chicken & Fish on Armitage, and Bungalow by Middle Brow filling out a strip that punches well above the neighborhood's size.

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    Palmer Square and Its Bicycle History

    Palmer Square Park, roughly seven acres on Kedzie Boulevard, was a favourite track for bicycle riders during the 1880s cycling craze, and Ignaz Schwinn later built his residence on its southeast corner. Today it carries a playground built around The Velveteen Rabbit, with a raised stage and carved animal figures.

  • 5

    Three Blue Line Stations and the End of The 606

    The CTA Blue Line runs through the neighborhood with stations at Logan Square, California, and Western, going 24 hours to the Loop and out to O'Hare, and the Logan Square station carries a large bus terminal. The 606 elevated greenway reaches its western end here at Ridgeway Avenue.

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    A Restored Theatre and a Member-Owned Grocery

    The Logan Theatre on Milwaukee Avenue runs first-run and classic film in a restored historic house with a bar and five-dollar Wednesdays, and the Dill Pickle Food Co-op a few blocks north is a member-owned grocery with a bulk section, a cafe, and a strong local-sourcing policy.

  • Sub-Areas and Property Types

    Logan Square Neighborhoods |
    A Buyer's Guide

    Logan Square is large enough that the name covers several genuinely different markets. Four areas are described below, plus Bucktown, which sits inside the community area and has its own page. Which area a listing sits in explains most of the price range.

    The Boulevards

    The landmarked boulevards are where Logan Square's grandest housing sits. Logan Boulevard, Kedzie Boulevard, and sections of Humboldt Boulevard run through 265 acres of historic district, with landscaped medians down the centre and large stone and brick single-family houses, substantial greystones, and small apartment buildings facing them. Development followed a clear sequence: large single-family homes first, then two-flats, three-flats, and small apartment buildings in the 1900s, and larger apartment buildings and institutional buildings in the 1910s and 1920s. This is the top of the market here, and it comes with regulatory weight. The district carries both National Register listing from 1985 and Chicago Landmark status from 2005, so exterior work visible from the boulevard may require review, and a renovation budget should account for that before an offer rather than after.

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    Palmer Square

    Palmer Square is a small, tightly held pocket around the roughly seven-acre Palmer Square Park on Kedzie Boulevard, and it is part of the same landmark district as the boulevards. Housing runs to large single-family homes and greystones facing the park, with two-flats and three-flats on the surrounding streets. The park has an unusual history: it was a favoured track for bicycle riders during the 1880s cycling craze, and Ignaz Schwinn, the bicycle manufacturer, built his residence on its southeast corner. Turnover here is low and inventory is thin, so buyers who specifically want Palmer Square generally need patience. The park itself hosts an arts festival each August.

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    The Milwaukee Avenue Business District

    Milwaukee Avenue running northwest from the Logan Square traffic circle is the neighborhood's commercial spine and its densest residential area, and it has its own protection: the business district is designated as the Milwaukee-Diversey-Kimball Chicago Landmark District. Residential inventory here is mostly condominiums in mixed-use buildings, converted units, and apartments above storefronts, with the Logan Square Blue Line station and its bus terminal in the middle of it. Buyers get the shortest walk to the restaurants, the Logan Theatre, the co-op, and the transit, and should expect commercial activity and parking pressure. This is generally where the most accessible pricing in the community area sits, and where the fast-moving price bands identified in the MLS data are concentrated.

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    Belmont Gardens and Kosciuszko Park

    At the northwestern end, Belmont Gardens and the Kosciuszko Park pocket sit between roughly Belmont Avenue and Fullerton Avenue west toward Pulaski Road, and both span the boundary into the Avondale community area. This is the most residential and least commercial part of Logan Square, built out heavily with Chicago brick bungalows, two-flats, and small apartment buildings on wide lots, and it typically offers the most square footage per dollar in the community area. Kosciuszko Park itself carries a swimming pool, a splash pad, a dog park with a dog pool, an adult fitness course, ball fields, and a playground. The Pulaski Industrial Corridor abuts the residential blocks here, so land use is genuinely mixed and worth walking on a weekday.

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    Bucktown

    Bucktown occupies the eastern portion of the Logan Square community area and has its own page on this site, covering the Damen Avenue corridor, the converted loft inventory along Elston Avenue, Holstein Park, and the neighborhood's goat-prairie history. It also trades differently from the rest of Logan Square, so it is worth reading separately rather than assuming community-area figures apply.

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    Living in Logan Square | Dining, Shopping, and Things to Do

    Dining

    Logan Square's restaurants cluster along Milwaukee Avenue, Kedzie Boulevard, and Armitage Avenue, and several of them draw diners from well outside the neighborhood.

    Lula Cafe

    Lula Cafe, at 2537 North Kedzie Boulevard, has been the neighborhood's defining restaurant for years, working from a seasonal menu with a three-course farm dinner on Mondays. Closed Tuesdays, and reservations are worth making.

    Longman & Eagle

    Longman & Eagle, at 2657 North Kedzie Avenue, is a gastropub with Michelin Bib Gourmand recognition, a whiskey list running past 400 bottles, and a small inn upstairs. Chicken and waffles at breakfast, and a room that has stayed deliberately unpolished.

    Mi Tocaya Antojeria

    Mi Tocaya Antojeria, at 2800 West Logan Boulevard, is chef Diana Davila's Mexican restaurant, built around mole negro, aguachile, and octopus. Closed Mondays.

    Parson's Chicken & Fish

    Parson's Chicken & Fish, at 2952 West Armitage Avenue, does fried chicken, fish fry, and hush puppies alongside frozen negroni slushies, on one of the larger patios on the Northwest Side.

    Bungalow by Middle Brow

    Bungalow by Middle Brow, at 2840 West Armitage Avenue, is a brewery, bakery, and pizzeria in one room, making its own bread, beer, and sourdough-crust pizza. Closed Mondays.

    NoodleBird

    NoodleBird, at 2957 West Diversey Avenue, is a fast-casual Asian kitchen doing rolled noodles, rice bowls, hand pies, and egg tarts in the space that previously held Fat Rice.

    Revolution Brewing

    Revolution Brewing, at 2323 North Milwaukee Avenue, is the brewpub that started the brewery, pouring beers that are hard to find in stores alongside a full kitchen.

    The Whistler

    The Whistler, at 2421 North Milwaukee Avenue, is a small bar and art gallery that books live jazz early in the week and turns into a dance floor later on. Closed Mondays.

    Shopping

    Milwaukee Avenue is the shopping street, running northwest from the Logan Square traffic circle through the landmarked business district. It carries independent boutiques, vintage and resale shops, record stores, bars, and restaurants in low-rise storefronts, with almost no national chain presence in the protected stretch.

    Dill Pickle Food Co-op

    The Dill Pickle Food Co-op at 2746 North Milwaukee Avenue is the neighborhood's distinctive grocery: member-owned, with a strong local-sourcing policy, a bulk section, a good produce selection, a cafe, and a play area.

    Fullerton, Diversey, and Armitage

    Fullerton Avenue, Diversey Avenue, and Kimball Avenue carry the everyday retail, hardware, and full-size grocery that the boutique strip does not, and Armitage Avenue adds a second smaller cluster of restaurants and shops toward the western side.

    Logan Square Farmers Market

    The Logan Square farmers market operates seasonally near the square.

    Culture

    Palmer Square hosts an arts festival each August.

    Logan Theatre

    For culture, the Logan Theatre at 2646 North Milwaukee Avenue is a restored historic movie house running first-run and repertory film with a bar attached and a long-standing discount night.

    The Whistler

    The Whistler books live jazz and doubles as a small gallery.

    Congress Theater

    The Congress Theater at 2135 North Milwaukee Avenue, a large historic venue on the commercial strip, has been closed for over a decade with a redevelopment that has repeatedly stalled, so a long-vacant landmark sits on Milwaukee Avenue and its future is unresolved.

    Things to Do

    The boulevards function as linear park, with landscaped medians that residents use for walking and sitting, and they connect the neighborhood's two squares.

    Illinois Centennial Monument

    Logan Square proper is the traffic circle at Logan and Kedzie Boulevards, holding the Illinois Centennial Monument, a 70-foot marble column dedicated in 1918 and topped by an eagle.

    Palmer Square Park

    Palmer Square Park on Kedzie Boulevard covers roughly seven acres with mature trees, open lawn, and a playground themed around The Velveteen Rabbit, with a raised stage and carved animal figures.

    Kosciuszko Park

    At the northwestern end, Kosciuszko Park adds a swimming pool, a splash pad, a dog park with its own dog pool, an adult fitness course, ball fields, and a playground.

    Parks

    The boulevards function as linear park, with landscaped medians that residents use for walking and sitting, and they connect the neighborhood's two squares. Logan Square proper is the traffic circle at Logan and Kedzie Boulevards, holding the Illinois Centennial Monument, a 70-foot marble column dedicated in 1918 and topped by an eagle. Palmer Square Park on Kedzie Boulevard covers roughly seven acres with mature trees, open lawn, and a playground themed around The Velveteen Rabbit, with a raised stage and carved animal figures. At the northwestern end, Kosciuszko Park adds a swimming pool, a splash pad, a dog park with its own dog pool, an adult fitness course, ball fields, and a playground. The 606 elevated greenway reaches its western terminus in the neighborhood at Ridgeway Avenue, giving a car-free route east toward Bucktown and Wicker Park.

    Logan Square Schools

    Logan Square is served entirely by Chicago Public Schools, District 299, so there is one public district and what changes by address is the attendance boundary. Because the community area spans five named neighborhoods and five ZIP codes across more than three square miles, boundaries here cut across it in several places and do not follow the names buyers use.

    Public Schools

  • Charles R. Darwin Public School

    3116 West Belden Avenue

    Charles R. Darwin Public School, at 3116 West Belden Avenue, serves the blocks around the boulevards and Palmer Square.

  • Goethe Elementary School

    2236 North Rockwell Street

    Goethe Elementary School, at 2236 North Rockwell Street, covers the eastern part of the community area toward the Bucktown boundary.

  • Monroe Elementary School

    3651 West Schubert Avenue

    Monroe Elementary School, at 3651 West Schubert Avenue, serves the northwestern blocks including part of the Belmont Gardens area.

  • Public High Schools

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    Independent and Parochial Schools

  • St. Sylvester School

    3027 West Palmer Square

    St. Sylvester School, at 3027 West Palmer Square, is the Catholic parish elementary school facing Palmer Square Park. It stands on the site of Ignaz Schwinn's former residence, which was donated to the parish and later demolished to make room for the school.

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  • Logan Square students also apply widely to selective enrollment and magnet high schools across the city. No Chicago Public Schools neighborhood high school sits inside the community area boundary, so confirm the assigned high school for any specific address directly with the district.

    Questions & Answers

    Frequently Asked Questions About Logan Square Real Estate

    Everything you need to know about buying a home in Chicago's neighborhood.

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    Why do some Logan Square price ranges sell faster than others?

    Because demand here is concentrated in specific price windows rather than spread evenly, and the pattern is not the one most people expect. Drawing on Midwest Real Estate Data MLS figures as of late February 2026, attached homes in the $450,000 to $500,000 range were clearing in roughly six days, while the $300,000 to $350,000 band, which carried the highest sales volume, averaged around 57 days. Lower did not mean faster. Across all attached sales in that ninety-day window the sale-to-list ratio was about 99 percent and no listing required a price reduction before selling. For a seller, that means a strategic adjustment into a faster-moving band can matter more than cutting the price, and for a buyer it means the competition you face depends heavily on your budget. Confirm current band behaviour before acting on it, since these patterns can shift quarter to quarter.

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    Is Bucktown part of Logan Square?

    Yes. Bucktown is a neighborhood inside the eastern portion of the Logan Square community area, and it has its own page on this site. They are not interchangeable and they do not trade alike. Bucktown skews toward converted industrial lofts, nineteenth-century workers cottages, and architect-designed new construction, and its market has recently been correcting on price, with its median down roughly 8 percent year over year. The rest of Logan Square is a different mix, running from condominiums along the Milwaukee Avenue corridor and bungalows in Belmont Gardens to stone mansions on the landmarked boulevards. If you are comparing listings across both, treat them as two markets rather than one.

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    What is the average home price in Logan Square?

    The best-sourced figure is a median around $507,500 for attached homes, based on 65 closed sales in a ninety-day window as of late February 2026 from Midwest Real Estate Data. Other published figures for the neighborhood range from about $557,500 to $732,450 depending on the source and on whether detached single-family homes are included, with condominiums reported around $425,000 and single-family homes averaging near $823,250. One caution worth knowing: at least one major portal was still publishing February 2025 figures for Logan Square in August 2026, so check the date on any number you find. Confirm against current MLS data before acting on it.

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    What kinds of homes can you buy in Logan Square?

    A genuinely wide range, which is the neighborhood's defining market feature. The landmarked boulevards hold large stone and brick single-family houses, substantial greystones, and small apartment buildings, built out in a clear sequence from big single-family homes in the late nineteenth century through two-flats and three-flats in the 1900s to larger apartment buildings in the 1910s and 1920s. Palmer Square holds large homes facing the park. The Milwaukee Avenue corridor is mostly condominiums in mixed-use buildings, converted units, and apartments above storefronts. Belmont Gardens and the Kosciuszko Park pocket at the northwestern end are heavily built out with Chicago brick bungalows and two-flats on wide lots and generally offer the most square footage per dollar.

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    What are the Logan Square boulevards and do they affect what I can build?

    The Logan Square Boulevards Historic District covers roughly 265 acres and 2.5 miles of the Chicago boulevard system, taking in Logan Boulevard, Kedzie Boulevard, sections of Humboldt Boulevard, and both Logan Square and Palmer Square. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 and designated a Chicago Landmark district in 2005. Those are two different things: National Register listing is largely honorific and can open access to certain preservation incentives, while Chicago Landmark status generally means exterior alterations visible from the street require city review. There is also a second Chicago Landmark district covering the Milwaukee Avenue business strip. If you are buying to renovate, establish which designations apply to the specific address before setting a budget, and confirm current requirements with the Commission on Chicago Landmarks.

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    Which part of Logan Square should I look in?

    It depends on the product and the budget. The boulevards and Palmer Square hold the largest houses and the highest prices, with exterior review to factor into any renovation. The Milwaukee Avenue corridor puts you closest to the restaurants, the Blue Line, the theatre, and the co-op, mostly in condominiums, and it is where the most accessible pricing sits along with the fastest-moving price bands. Belmont Gardens and Kosciuszko Park at the northwestern end give the most space per dollar in brick bungalows and two-flats, with the trade-off that the Pulaski Industrial Corridor abuts the residential blocks and land use is mixed. Bucktown, in the eastern portion, is a separate market with its own page.

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    How is JDC Group different from other Logan Square real estate agents?

    JDC Group has worked the Chicago market since 1996 and serves Logan Square from an office at 2350 North Lincoln Avenue. Three things make local knowledge unusually valuable here. Pricing strategy genuinely moves outcomes, because absorption speed varies sharply between price bands in a way that publicly available portal summaries do not show. Two Chicago Landmark districts cover parts of the community area, one along the boulevards and one on the Milwaukee Avenue business strip, and both affect what an owner can do to a building. And the community area spans five named neighborhoods across more than three square miles, so a listing described as Logan Square could be a boulevard mansion or a bungalow two miles away. Julie Chesne holds the Certified Residential Specialist, Certified Luxury Home Marketing Specialist, Accredited Buyer's Representative, and Real Estate Negotiation Expert designations, along with the Senior Real Estate Specialist and Certified Senior Advisor credentials for clients handling a later-life move, a downsize, or the sale of a longtime family home. JDC Group is affiliated with COMPASS and has been recognized as a Chicago Association of Realtors Top Producer.

    Find Your Home in Logan Square

    JDC Group has been helping buyers and sellers across Logan Square and the North Side since 1996, from condominiums along Milwaukee Avenue and bungalows in Belmont Gardens to greystones and stone mansions on the landmarked boulevards. Whether you are searching for Logan Square homes for sale, working out which price band to list into, or working through a downsize or an estate sale, Julie Chesne and the JDC Group team at COMPASS will give you a straight read on the block, the district, and the number. Call (773) 807-8580 or email julie.chesne@compass.com to start the conversation.

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