Let's Renovate Chicago. The New Burnham Plan is John Barlow's plan to rebuild the city from the pipes up. It takes out every lead pipe, brings $10-a-day childcare and builds a subway under Western Avenue, with 46 policies in all. See what it costs you a day and a month.
JOHN BARLOW
FOR MAYOR OF CHICAGO
CHICAGO NEEDS A GUT REHAB.
Another patch job won't fix it.
THE PITCH
BARLOW
FOR MAYOR
I didn't plan to run for mayor.
I was trying to figure out how to stay in Chicago.
CAN YOU STAY IN CHICAGO?
Every neighborhood has its own reason people leave.
Pick one below. Each of these three neighborhoods stands for dozens of others like it.
LINCOLN PARK
PILSEN
ENGLEWOOD
NEIGHBORHOODS LIKE LINCOLN PARK
It's great if you're 25. It's hard to stay once you have kids.
$2,573
average rent, up almost 11% in a year
$850,000
median asking price for a home for sale
42%
of residents are 20 to 34. Families move out.
Sources: CMAP Community Data Snapshots, June 2026 (Census ACS 2020–24 and land use, community-area level); RentCafe, August 2026 (Lincoln Park average rent); Redfin, 2026 (Lincoln Park median list price; Lower West Side median sale price, three months ending July 2026); UIC Great Cities Institute, "Who Lives in Pilsen" (2023); DePaul Institute for Housing Studies (Pilsen incomes 2010–2020; 2025 buyers); WBEZ (Englewood Whole Foods, 2022). Pilsen is the Lower West Side community area. Englewood is community area 68 and doesn't include West Englewood.