{"id":59,"date":"2026-10-11T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/?p=59"},"modified":"2026-10-11T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T12:00:00","slug":"cost-of-living-in-chicago-il","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/2026\/10\/11\/cost-of-living-in-chicago-il\/","title":{"rendered":"Cost Of Living In Chicago, IL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"roomvu-news-container\">\n<p>To maintain your standard of living in Chicago, IL, you will need a household income $14,699 higher than your current income. The cost of living in Chicago is 17% higher overall, with transportation costs 4% higher and housing costs 67% higher. However, utilities in Chicago tend to be 9% lower than in your current location.<\/p>\n<p>\t<a class=\"roomvu-news-continue\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/advisor\/mortgages\/real-estate\/cost-of-living-calculator\/chicago-il\/\"><\/p>\n<div>Continue to full article<\/div>\n<p>\t<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To maintain your standard of living in Chicago, IL, you will need a household income $14,699 higher than your current income. The cost of living in Chicago is 17% higher overall, with transportation costs 4% higher and housing costs 67% higher. However, utilities in Chicago tend to be 9% lower than in your current location. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":60,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59\/revisions\/66"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sentenorealestate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}