Multiple Chicago suburbs ranked on U.S. News & World Report’s “250 Best Places to Live in the U.S. in 2025-26,” with four Chicago area communities scoring high in metrics like good home value, strong job market and high quality of life.
The report, which surveyed people from 250 major cities, analyzed responses across difference indexes, which accounted for quality of education and health care, house affordability, crime rate, culture and leisure offerings and more.
Four midwestern spots made the list’s top 10, including Carmel, Indiana at No. 2; Fishers, Indiana at No. 3; Rochester Hills, Michigan at No; 9 and Troy, Michigan at No. 10.
While other towns in Indiana, Minnesota, Michigan, Missouri, Iowa and Wisconsin all make the top 50, Illinois doesn’t appear on the list until 56, where Arlington Heights ranks. The northwest Chicago suburb could also potentially be home to a new Chicago Bears stadium, with the team recently saying its focus had shifted to the land it owns in the village.
Buffalo Grove, also a northwest Chicago suburb, ranked 63. Naperville, which frequently ranks high on similar lists, came in at No. 76.
The full list of Illinois cities and where they ranked among the report can be found below:
No. 56: Arlington Heights
No. 63: Buffalo Grove
No. 76: Naperville
No. 80: Palatine
No. 122: Elgin
No. 141: Schaumburg
No. 168: Bloomington
No. 210: Bolingbrook
No. 230: Skokie
No. 240: Des Plaines
The full report can be found here.
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