Best nursing homes in Chicago, IL
These are the 77 CMS-certified nursing homes in Chicago, Illinois, ranked best-first by the home’s CMS overall star rating. When two homes tie, we break the tie by the health-inspection rating — the domain assigned by independent state surveyors rather than self-reported by the facility. Nothing on this page is sponsored: no home pays to appear or to rank higher.
Check the certification chip before anything else. Most homes here are certified for both Medicare and Medicaid, but CMS certifies some for only one — and a 5-star home that doesn’t take your programme is not an option, however it ranks. Certification is not a quality measure and we don’t rank on it; we label it, because it decides whether the rest of the row matters to you.
How to read this: a high overall star can be lifted by self-reported quality-measure and payroll-staffing scores, so we surface the inspection rating and any serious citations, fines, abuse flags or ownership changes right on the row. A lower-ranked home with a clean inspection record can be the better fit than a higher-ranked one carrying red flags — open each profile.
- 1Medicare only — no MedicaidNo major red flags on record5645 West Addison Street, Chicago, IL
- 2Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$5,244 in federal fines3919 West Foster Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 3Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citations$9,272 in federal fines2325 North Lakewood Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 4Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record3659 West 99th Street, Chicago, IL
- 5Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation908 West Argyle Street, Chicago, IL
- 6Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citations4021 West Belmont, Chicago, IL
- 7Medicare only — no MedicaidNo major red flags on record55 East Pearson, Chicago, IL
- 8Medicare only — no Medicaid1 serious citation933 West Foster Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 9Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation5831 North Northwest Highway, Chicago, IL
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- 11Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record2625 West Touhy Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 12Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citations$13,729 in federal fines7618 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL
- 13Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citations$4,784 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection6300 North California Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 14Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$19,752 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection5550 South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL
- 15Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citations$24,962 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection66 West Oak Street, Chicago, IL
- 16Medicare & Medicaid certified4 serious citations$8,512 in federal fines504 West Wellington Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 17Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citations7370 West Talcott Avenue, Chicago, IL
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- 19Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$17,665 in federal fines4538 North Beacon, Chicago, IL
- 20Medicare & Medicaid certified4 serious citations$40,474 in federal fines6016 North Nina Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 21Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$117,488 in federal fines2732 North Hampden Court, Chicago, IL
- 22Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation$37,668 in federal fines6700 North Damen Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 23Medicare & Medicaid certified1 serious citation7445 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL
- 24Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$105,248 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection7750 South Shore Drive, Chicago, IL
- 25Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon5 serious citations$16,350 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection2320 West 113th Place, Chicago, IL
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- 27Medicare & Medicaid certified4 serious citations$67,360 in federal fines2242 North Kedzie, Chicago, IL
- 28Medicare & Medicaid certified2 serious citations$52,284 in federal fines5838 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL
- 29Medicare & Medicaid certified4 serious citations$98,784 in federal fines5061 North Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL
- 30Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon5 serious citations$111,884 in federal fines4900 North Bernard, Chicago, IL
- 31Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon6 serious citations$202,448 in federal fines1366 West Fullerton Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 32Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$95,203 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection8001 South Western Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 33Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$253,556 in federal fines725 West Montrose Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 34Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon2 immediate-jeopardy citations$390,344 in federal fines7350 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL
- 35Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon8 serious citations$245,827 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection1512 West Fargo, Chicago, IL
- 36Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citationSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2840 West Foster Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 37Medicare & Medicaid certified4 serious citations$10,516 in federal fines4340 North Keystone, Chicago, IL
- 38Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$598,146 in federal fines5888 North Ridge, Chicago, IL
- 39Medicare & Medicaid certified4 serious citations$53,336 in federal fines2833 North Nordica Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 40Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$13,042 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection6141 North Pulaski Road, Chicago, IL
- 41Medicare & Medicaid certified4 serious citations$67,915 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection5130 West Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, IL
- 42Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon8 serious citations$246,075 in federal fines201 West 69th Street, Chicago, IL
- 43Medicaid only — no MedicareAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citationSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection2155 West Pierce, Chicago, IL
- 44Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$343,276 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection2940 West 87th Street, Chicago, IL
- 45Medicare & Medicaid certifiedSpecial Focus candidate (CMS is watching this home)Abuse icon2 immediate-jeopardy citations$631,885 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 4★ above inspection10935 South Halsted Street, Chicago, IL
- 46Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$123,614 in federal fines4621 North Racine Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 47Medicare & Medicaid certifiedNo major red flags on record2444 West Touhy Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 48Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon2 serious citations$21,735 in federal fines5448 North Broadway Street, Chicago, IL
- 49Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon8 serious citations$106,504 in federal fines4815 South Western Ave, Chicago, IL
- 50Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$163,637 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection1425 West Estes Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 51Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$85,800 in federal fines2450 North Central Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 52Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$194,990 in federal fines2451 West Touhy Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 53Medicare & Medicaid certified8 serious citations$116,544 in federal fines2649 East 75th St, Chicago, IL
- 54Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 serious citation3405 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 55Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon5 serious citations$106,420 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection735 West Diversey, Chicago, IL
- 56Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon10 serious citations$96,359 in federal fines2320 South Lawndale, Chicago, IL
- 57Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$32,136 in federal fines255 West 69th Street, Chicago, IL
- 58Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$301,750 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection6450 North Ridge Blvd, Chicago, IL
- 59Medicare & Medicaid certified3 immediate-jeopardy citations$480,663 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection2425 East 71st Street, Chicago, IL
- 60Medicare & Medicaid certified6 serious citations$152,896 in federal fines1725 South Wabash, Chicago, IL
- 61Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon4 immediate-jeopardy citations$205,559 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection820 West Lawrence, Chicago, IL
- 62Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$208,986 in federal fines7200 North Sheridan Road, Chicago, IL
- 63Medicare & Medicaid certified4 serious citations$83,467 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection1415 West Foster Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 64Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon3 immediate-jeopardy citations$596,515 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection4437 South Cicero, Chicago, IL
- 65Medicare & Medicaid certified2 immediate-jeopardy citations$107,000 in federal fines4314 South Wabash Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 66Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon8 serious citations$577,293 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection901 South Austin Blvd, Chicago, IL
- 67Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon10 serious citations$320,068 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection11401 South Oakley Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 68Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$363,575 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection2829 South California Blvd, Chicago, IL
- 69Medicare & Medicaid certified1 immediate-jeopardy citation$420,046 in federal fines1401 North California, Chicago, IL
- 70Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$148,997 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection4920 North Kenmore, Chicago, IL
- 71Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon3 immediate-jeopardy citations$300,062 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 3★ above inspection5905 West Washington, Chicago, IL
- 72Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$284,231 in federal fines5336 North Western Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 73Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon8 serious citations$65,572 in federal fines4505 South Drexel, Chicago, IL
- 74Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon1 immediate-jeopardy citation$595,647 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection1010 West 95th Street, Chicago, IL
- 75Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon5 serious citations$307,855 in federal fines6125 South Kenwood, Chicago, IL
- 76Medicare & Medicaid certified3 serious citations$107,873 in federal finesSelf-reported scores 2★ above inspection3800 North California Avenue, Chicago, IL
- 77Medicare & Medicaid certifiedAbuse icon8 serious citations$192,821 in federal fines3400 South Indiana, Chicago, IL
Keep looking: read the Illinois state guides — nursing homes and assisted living — for how the state’s system works, find the closest homes to your ZIP or location, filter every facility by rating, cost and inspection record, or compare any of these side by side. Or see assisted living in Chicago, IL. Back to every Illinois city.
How we rank
We order this list strictly by each home’s CMS overall star rating — the government’s own rating, not a score of our own. When two homes carry the same overall rating we break the tie by the health-inspection rating — the domain scored by independent state surveyors rather than self-reported — and then alphabetically. Homes with no rating on file sink to the bottom.
We should be straight with you about a tension here. The CMS overall star is a blend of three domains, and elsewhere on this site we argue that blend can be misleading: the staffing and quality-measure components lean on data facilities report about themselves, and they can lift a home’s overall star above what inspectors actually found. We still sort by it, for one reason — it is the only ranking of nursing homes the government publishes, and the alternative is us deciding which domain ought to count, which is our opinion dressed up as an official rating. We won’t do that. (It is the same reason we refuse to rank assisted living at all.) So instead of quietly re-sorting to our taste, we un-blend the star on every row: the inspection rating sits next to the overall one, and serious citations, fines and abuse flags are on the row too. Where the two disagree, trust the inspection record and the citations — and treat our sort order as the government’s claim, not ours. See our methodology.
No home pays to appear here or to rank higher. There is no sponsored placement, no paid listing, and no referral fee. The page carries ordinary Google display advertising, sold against the page by Google: it cannot move a home up or down this list, and no advertiser sees who you are. The ratings, citations and fines are assigned by government inspectors (CMS), not by Eldercare Lens.
Common questions
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Ratings and citations are assigned by government inspectors (CMS), not by Eldercare Lens. The absence of a citation does not guarantee the absence of problems. Always verify with the facility and your state Long-Term Care Ombudsman.