Rental listings collected from property managers' own websites and leasing software across Illinois, verified at the source within the last 30 days, licensed for display with attribution and a link back. Measured 2026-09-14. Building for a specific city? Check your market for its count.
Monthly asking-rent percentiles across 18,550 priced manager-direct listings in Illinois. The p25 to p75 band is the market's middle half.
| Bedrooms | Listings | p25 | Median | p75 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Studio | 935 | $1,050 | $1,450 | $1,969 |
| 1 bed | 4,774 | $1,200 | $1,695 | $2,325 |
| 2 bed | 6,705 | $1,250 | $1,686 | $2,421 |
| 3 bed | 3,504 | $1,350 | $1,783 | $2,600 |
| 4+ bed | 1,209 | $1,500 | $2,000 | $2,900 |
Share of 17,127 bedroom-tagged listings.
Cities with the most manager-direct inventory, with the median asking rent in each.
| City | Listings | Median rent |
|---|---|---|
| Chicago | 9,531 | $1,984 |
| Champaign | 443 | $1,450 |
| Bloomington | 274 | $1,030 |
| Naperville | 254 | $2,492 |
| Peoria | 249 | $955 |
| Evanston | 244 | $2,295 |
| Rockford | 235 | $1,195 |
| Aurora | 220 | $1,675 |
| Oak Park | 214 | $2,379 |
| Des Plaines | 211 | $1,749 |
| Urbana | 181 | $1,200 |
| Deerfield | 158 | $5,650 |
The median asking rent across manager-direct listings in Illinois is $1,725 a month, and the middle half of the market sits between $1,295 and $2,450. 2 bed units are the largest group at 39% of bedroom-tagged inventory, with a median of $1,686. Among the larger cities, Naperville is the most expensive at a median of $2,492 and Peoria the least at $955. Where a property type is stated, the mix is apartment 73%, multifamily 19%, single-family home 7%, house 1%. The median listed size is 900 sq ft.
One record per unit with address, coordinates, rent, bedrooms, bathrooms, size, availability, photos and the manager's own listing URL; weekly added, changed and removed records; CSV, JSON or API. Licensed for display in consumer-facing products, with attribution and link-back, from $300 a month for a metro. How the rental listings API works →
Coverage measured on the current displayable set (Up to 1,000 rows per platform verified 2-30 days ago (so enrichment has run), 22,021 rows over 28 platforms, weighted by each platform's 30-day count.). It varies by source and market; the sample for your geography shows the exact share. State-level field coverage comes with your sample.
| url | Source URL the manager's own listing page; attribution and link-back target | nearly every record | |
| rent_min | Rent monthly asking rent, native currency plus rent_usd | nearly every record | |
| street | Street address plus city, state, ZIP; the full string in address | nearly every record | |
| zip | ZIP | most records | |
| beds | Bedrooms 0 = studio | most records | |
| baths | Bathrooms | nearly every record | |
| sqft_min | Size square feet; rent_per_sqft and rent_per_sqm derived | most records | |
| latlng | Coordinates geocoded when the source does not publish them | about half | |
| image | Photo primary image URL; images holds the gallery where the source publishes one | about half | |
| available | Availability date or NOW as published | about half | |
| property_type | Property type apartment, house, condo, townhouse, room, normalised | about half | |
| amenities | Amenities list, as published | sparse | |
| description | Description the manager's text; generated boilerplate is removed | sparse | |
| first_seen_at | First seen when we first saw the listing at its source | most records | |
| last_seen_at | Last verified when we last confirmed it was still published | nearly every record |
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