ChicagoNeighborhoods

Chicago zoning by neighborhood

What the zoning actually is on the ground, neighborhood by neighborhood — counted from the parcel record rather than described from the map legend.

93 neighborhoods, 612,287 lots. Each page reads the same parcel table the LotGrade analyzer reads, so its figures cannot disagree with the app. Zoning rules link to Title 17 in our hosted zoning code.

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Every neighborhood

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Why it matters

The district is where the answer starts

A zoning map tells you the district. It does not tell you that 96% of Logan Square sits inside the 606 overlay, where what your neighbors built decides what you may build, or that 55% of it is transit-served, where the parking minimum can fall to zero. Those are the rules that move a project, and they are invisible until someone counts the lots.

That is what these pages do. For the rules themselves, start with the Chicago Zoning Field Guide or put a lot size into the zoning calculator.

Questions

Common questions

What do these pages show?

For each Chicago neighborhood: which zoning districts its lots actually carry and in what proportion, the median lot size against the standard 25 × 125, the overlays that outrank the district — the 606 block rules, transit-served locations, landmarks — and how often the zoning map has moved there.

Where do the boundaries come from?

The City of Chicago’s neighborhood boundaries, which is the set that carries the names people use — Wicker Park, Bucktown, West Loop, Ukrainian Village — each of which is a slice of a community area whose official name is rarely spoken. Community areas are the official geography; neighborhood lines are a convention, so treat a lot near an edge as belonging to whichever you can verify.

Why are some neighborhoods missing?

Five of the city’s 98 are parks, a civic campus and a shopping strip — Jackson Park, Millennium Park, Museum Campus, Grant Park and the Magnificent Mile. Between them they hold about a hundred lots, which is too few to say anything true about. The other 93 are here.

Do you cover anywhere outside Chicago?

Not yet. The analyzer covers every parcel in the City of Chicago; the suburbs and other metros are ahead of us. If you develop somewhere we do not cover, tell us where you work — that is what decides the order.

For a real address

Check the real numbers for a real parcel

Every figure on these pages is a count across a neighborhood. LotGrade runs the same rules against one address — the district, the overlays, the block test and the buildable envelope.

Analyze a Chicago address Book a walkthrough

The analyzer requires an account — you’ll be asked to sign in. The Zoning Field Guide, the zoning code and these guides are free and need no login.