Extended Stay Report · 2026Q3 · CBSA 16980

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

9,408,576 residents across 13 counties. Supply as mapped 18 days ago; employment for 2025Q4.

The gap, stated plainly

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin has about 8,933 extended-stay rooms. The construction workforce already on the ground implies demand for roughly 13,522.

Existing rooms

8,933

Baseline need

13,522

Project-driven need

Gap

+4,589

Arithmetic: 169,021 construction jobs × 8% assumed non-local = 13,522 rooms. The non-local share is an assumption and is the single biggest lever here — halve it and the gap moves more than any other input.

First edition

This is the first published edition for Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, so there is nothing to compare against yet. Its 8,933 rooms, 169,021 construction jobs and gap of +4,589 are the baseline. Each later quarterly edition shows how they have moved since.

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