Park West Eviction Risk: Moderate , Chicago

Cost burden runs 33% here against 45.6% across Cook County. The main counterweight is economic stress at 1.3/10.

This is renter territory: 78% of occupied units are tenant-occupied. Disability prevalence runs 14.3% against 31.5% nationally.

Running hot, local political climate reads 8.5/10. The severe-burden share is 16%, and it is the single best predictor in this model of a filing that actually reaches judgment. Sitting well above the midpoint, tenant-organizing strength reads 8/10.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 130 filings here across 15 tracked years. It sits 0.8 points below the Cook County average of 6.1.

The voucher gap is 12.7%: households holding assistance that local rents will not absorb, which surfaces as churn rather than arrears. Inability to pay a utility bill runs 3.8% against 9.2% nationally. Utility arrears usually lead rent arrears by a month or two. The worst year on record was 2002, when 1.5% of renter households were served.

In the 1930s the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation graded this ground C ("Definitely Declining"). Redlining cut off mortgage credit to whole blocks for decades, and the areas graded D still carry measurably lower ownership and higher rent burden today.

These are ACS 5-year estimates; the score moves when the ACS, court-record, or statute inputs behind it move.