A live dashboard for the Illinois housing market — statewide and metro median prices, year-over-year trends, mortgage rates, building permits, and county-level data. Refreshes automatically.
The dashboard aggregates Illinois housing market data from multiple public sources — statewide median home price and year-over-year change, metro-level breakdowns for every BLS-reporting metro area in Illinois, current mortgage rates (30-year, 15-year, ARM), building permits, and the latest housing news. Data refreshes every few minutes.
Real estate gets a single tile on the Illinois Gateway homepage, but the housing market is one of the most consequential signals in the Illinois economy — it benefits from a full-page view with county-level breakdowns, mortgage-rate context, and a live news feed. This page consolidates everything in one place.
National Weather Service (NWS), FEMA, NOAA, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), USGS, EPA AirNow, FAA, state DOT (511 incidents), state DNR / parks, state corrections, state environmental agency, USDA NASS, NIFC, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), and CME Group commodity futures.
Emergency & Weather, Transport (roads, airports, transit, border crossings), Environment & Great Lakes (water levels, beaches, PFAS, drinking water, sewer overflows, harmful algal blooms), News (top, crime, health, auto, sports, technology, economy), Infrastructure (power grid, EV charging, PFAS contamination, water systems), Public Health, Economy & Markets, Auto Industry, Sports, Events & Legislature, Education, Tourism, and Community.
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Illinois Gateway aggregates live data from 20+ authoritative public sources — weather alerts, road conditions, air quality, economy, agriculture, and community news — all in one place, updated every 5 minutes.
Built for residents, journalists, and local businesses who need an at-a-glance picture of what's happening across the state right now.
Sunrise, sunset, moon phase, and aurora watching for Illinois tonight.
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Clear and dry today.
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Events and near-term programs that may affect your plans this week.
Public hearings, council and commission meetings, planning sessions, scheduled road closures, and water-system work — pulled from real city/county calendar feeds.
One compact panel replaces the legacy 18 slow-moving panels.
Live commodity futures + USDA Illinois wholesale crop prices, refreshed every few minutes during trading hours.
Scores, schedules, and headlines for Chicago Bears, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Chicago Bulls, Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Fire — Illinois's 8 pro and college teams.
Slower-moving and specialized data lives on its own pages — updated monthly to yearly.
Moved off the homepage: background context, not today's driving conditions.
Long-running environmental + health datasets, organized into 7 thematic hubs. Each card opens a hub page with the underlying datasets as tabs.
Slow-moving (monthly to annual) economy + business indicators on dedicated pages.