Forest Park home prices are down while the suburbs around it boom. Here's what's going on.

Forest Park home prices are down while the suburbs around it boom. Here's what's going on.

In 2024, River Forest’s median home sale price jumped 24 percent, landing at $980,000. Oak Park climbed nearly 19 percent to a median of $623,000. The broader Chicago metro posted 8 percent gains on single-family homes. Forest Park, with its own Blue Line access and walkable downtown, came in somewhere around flat. Depending on which data you’re looking at, listing prices in the 60130 zip code are either barely changed or slightly lower than a y…