Forestview, Illinois.
Typical home $302,743 (+4.7% in a year). Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — +$872 (+122%) since Jan 2020.
- 1 year
- Up $13,720 +5%
- $289,023$302,743 since Sep 2025
- 5 years
- Up $73,456 +32%
- $229,287$302,743 since Sep 2021
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Forestview$1,589
- Illinois$1,553
- United States$1,922
At the last five years' pace, a typical home here doubles in price every 12 years.
Typical home values in Forestview, IL rose 4.7% over the past year — faster than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Forestview, Cook County, Illinois
Forestview is a village of 792 people in Cook County. 98% of its homes are lived in by their owners and 2% are rented. Unemployment in Cook County was 5.9% in August 2026, and the county had 1.1% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most residents work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Forestview is a very small village in Cook County, and nearly every home in it is lived in by its owners. Hardly any residents live below the poverty line. Winters are cold, with January the coldest month, and summers are warm, with July the warmest. Rain and melted snow add up to a fairly wet year.
Work. Residents work mostly in schools, hospitals and social care, with others in shops, transport and warehouses, and manufacturing. The village itself is home to several working businesses, among them FedEx Freight, Daubert Chemical Company and Azteca Foods. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than is typical, and some people work from home, while the rest make a fairly ordinary commute.
Things to do. Chicago is a short drive away, and most of what draws people there is close at hand. The Art Institute of Chicago is one of the best known museums in the country, and Millennium Park is a city garden with public art and open lawns. For a day outdoors, the Chicago River runs through the heart of the city, and the Field Museum of Natural History is another short drive away.
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- 327households
- 16%of adults have a degree
- 1%below the poverty line
- 25 mintypical commute
- 12%work from home
What residents work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Cook County had 2,594,810 jobs in 2025, 1.1% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 33° and lows near 19°; warmest in July, with highs near 85° and lows near 68°. About 34 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Chicago Midway Airport weather station, 2 miles away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Forestview
- FedEx FreightLess than truckload general freight trucking331
- AB Car Rental ServicesRental car126
- Daubert Chemical CompanyPastes, adhesive, manufacturing118
- Azteca FoodsTortillas manufacturing93
- Rush EnterprisesAutomobiles and other motor vehicles82
- Conexus Food SolutionsAgents and brokers, nondurable goods, wholesale trade75
- LRSRecyclable material merchant wholesalers58
- Midwest Food ServicesGroceries, general-line, merchant wholesalers58
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 12 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 1,067 people in all. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- Inland floodingVery high
- Cold wavesVery high
- TornadoesRelatively high
- Heat wavesRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Forestview’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively high. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Cook County and the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI metro.
Forestview home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Forestview$302,743
- Illinois$295,943
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Zip codes with a Forestview address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Forestview — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.
Zillow publishes no zip-level series with this city on the address.