Which Collar Counties Have the Biggest and Newest Homes?

By Reboot Illinois (Star Patcher)

You can tell a lot about an area by the state of its housing — how big, how old, how many multi-unit buildings and how many single units.

In Illinois, the type of housing varies from county to county. Cook County has primarily multi-unit buildings and a majority of the housing structures were built before 1970. The same can‘t be said of the surrounding collar counties which feature newer, single-unit homes. They also have the biggest homes. But which county has the biggest and newest homes in Illinois? You can find that out in our chart of housing in the Chicagoland area.

For those who are looking to buy homes for the first-time in one of the counties in Northern Illinois, we also have a list of six assistance programs to help first-time home buyers.

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