Custom home design in University Village
University Village is Near West Side's post-2001 new-build luxury townhouses (uic redevelopment) submarket. University Village (originally "Pilsen West") was developed 2001-2010 on former Maxwell Street Market land cleared by UIC expansion in the 1960s-1990s — the bulk of the stock is post-2001 new-build townhouse, not legacy historic.
What a custom home design project looks like here
University Village (originally "Pilsen West") was developed 2001-2010 on former Maxwell Street Market land cleared by UIC expansion in the 1960s-1990s — the bulk of the stock is post-2001 new-build townhouse, not legacy historic.
The UIC Medical District overlay extends into the eastern edge of University Village — construction noise restrictions on weekdays between 9am and 3pm apply to properties within 500 ft of Rush University Medical Center, UI Health, and Jesse Brown VA Medical Center.
Because University Village's post-2001 townhouses typically have rear-loading garages and basement-level parking, basement-ADU conversions are rarely feasible (the basement is already garage use) — limiting the neighborhood's effective ADU Pilot Program eligibility.
Ground-up residential on Chicago's 25-ft standard lot (or wider Beverly / Hyde Park lots) — design through CDOB NB permit through Certificate of Occupancy. In University Village specifically, post-2001 new-build luxury townhouses (uic redevelopment) stock means custom home design scope is shaped by the neighborhood's dominant construction typology. Baily's Chicago scoping flow factors no landmark district and chicago historic resources survey green-rated mostly into the estimate before a contractor is involved.
Start your University Village scope — Baily asks the right questions.
Pre-seeded for custom home design in University Village. Mention your 1,100-2,200 sqft townhouse, your timeline, and any known constraints — Baily factors the cdob standard permit review queue into the scope.
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Who is Baily?
Baily is named after Francis Baily — an English stockbroker who retired at 51, became an astronomer, and in 1836 described something on the edge of a solar eclipse that nobody had properly articulated before: a string of bright beads of sunlight breaking through the valleys along the moon’s rim.
He wasn’t the first to see them. Edmond Halley saw them in 1715 and barely noticed. Baily’s contribution was clarity — describing exactly what was happening, in plain language, so vividly that the whole field of astronomy paid attention. The phenomenon is still called Baily’s beads.
That’s what we wanted our AI to do. Every inbound call and text has signal in it — a homeowner’s real question, a timeline, a budget, a hesitation that means “yes but.” Baily listens to every one, 24/7, and finds the beads of light.
Baily was a businessman before he was a scientist. That’s our vibe too.
Questions LA homeowners actually ask
University Village custom home design projects typically run $485K–$2.8M. University Village's post-2001 new-build luxury townhouses (uic redevelopment) stock, combined with no landmark district, puts most mid-complexity projects in the $1.6M range. Baily scopes the exact band once you describe the work.
Nearest neighborhoods
Same service, adjacent Chicago submarkets.