Roseland

Roseland runs along the Michigan Avenue corridor on the far South Side, a neighborhood built by Dutch farmers and remade by the Great Migration, with a long civic tradition that includes a young organizer named Barack Obama working its church basements in the 1980s. Decades of disinvestment hit hard, but the Red Line extension now under construction to 130th Street is the biggest infrastructure bet on the neighborhood in half a century.

Today transit means the 95th Street Red Line terminal and the Metra Electric's stations on the eastern edge; the extension will put stations in the neighborhood itself. Housing is deeply affordable. Roseland suits buyers positioning ahead of the rail line, which is the classic Chicago move: the neighborhoods the L reaches never stay cheap.

Roseland offers moderate transit access: a single car per household is usually sufficient. One car typically covers the gap that transit leaves.

With a Walk Score of 68, Roseland is "Somewhat Walkable": some errands can be done on foot, but many trips need transit or a car.

At roughly $12,000/year for 1 car, transportation is a moderate line item in Roseland's true cost. The neighborhood is served by the Red line.