As other reviews mention, it’s not downtown and I wouldn’t recommend walking around at night, but it’s a cheap stay a block from Chicago PD fwiw. One night coming home late a guy out front asked to use our phone but we said no and that was that. At night some people were playing music loud outside but that only bothered the person in the front bedroom. We didn’t have any problems otherwise but the listing doesn’t have a pic of the house, I’d say map view before to avoid surprises.
The beds aren’t the most comfy and my husband wound up sleeping on the couch. If you just need a place to crash it serves its purpose. However, sheets and pillow had hair in one of the bedrooms.
As for the value, it served our needs, a group of 5 sharing an Uber downtown was $15-20.
Host provided water and snacks and adjusted our reservation that was one day wrong, that was nice.
The welcome/rule book requested guests take out the trash, though there was some confusion where to leave it. The host informed us they would update instructions with trash cans located behind the house.