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Illinois rent vs. buy · public data

Rent or Buy in Illinois? Price-to-Rent by County

How many years of rent it takes to equal the price of a home, county by county. The ratio is the simplest way to see where owning is cheap relative to renting — and where it is not.

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A brick cooperative apartment building on a residential block in Chicago.
A co-op apartment building in Chicago. Rent is the denominator in every ratio on this page.Photo: Legimet · CC BY-SA 4.0 · View original sourcehttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:6901_Oglesby_Cooperative_Apartment_Building.jpg