Are you restricted to the city of Chicago itself? How far out in the suburbs can you go? Are you interested in
private or parochial schools? What are your restrictions?

The reason why Healthy11 & I ask these questions is because is a huge area. The city itself has a terrible reputation for public schools, but there are many exceptions. Particularly the northwest side, like Jefferson Park or Edgebrook have better schools. But it can be very spotty. There are very obscenely wealthy urban areas, and trendier gentrifying areas and there are very very bad areas. And there are the blue-collar bungalow type areas. Some of these very different areas are very close to each other and attendance areas can include several types of neighborhoods.

Then there are the suburbs. North and northwest suburbs are probably the safest bets for good schools, but there are also great broad areas to the west or southwest.

We really need to know more about what type of neighborhood you're looking for.

Here are some previous discussions on the subject:

community.greatschools.net/q-and-a/202570/Relocating-to-Chicago-from-Nebraska?cpage=1#comment_202590

community.greatschools.net/q-and-a/169992/Hi-Everyone-We-are-relocating-from-the-UK-and-need-advice-on-neighbourhoods-and-schools-in-chicago-Anyone

community.greatschools.net/q-and-a/158184/I-need-advice-on-middle-schools-in-the-Chicago-area

community.greatschools.net/q-and-a/216651/What-are-the-good-middle-and-high-schools-not-too-far-from-Skokie-IL?cpage=1#comment_216911