A restaurant back room with a modular ice machine on its bin and dark walnut cabinets, seen close at the ice machine's bin door.

Chicago, IL

Ice machine repair in Cook County.

20 cities and neighborhoods across Cook County, part of Chicago — 10 with a page on what that place does to an ice machine.

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What Cook County does
to an ice machine.

Where ice machines sit in Cook County: older housing stock, home bars with clear ice, mixed housing.

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Older housing stock

Old commercial buildings turned into bars and restaurants often have a single aging supply serving the whole back of house, and an ice machine on it fills its trough short whenever the dish area draws water, which shows as small or partial sheets of cubes.

Home bars with clear ice

In a designed kitchen the ice machine often has its own water branch with an inline filter tucked behind a panel, and a cartridge left past its date slowly starves the water trough, so the filter's age is read before anything else.

Mixed housing

On a block where an old corner restaurant faces a new cafe, the older one may still run a modular head from decades back whose parts are getting scarce, while the new one runs an R-290 machine full of sensors, and each takes a different kind of repair.

Where we go
in Cook County.

20 cities and neighborhoods across Cook County, part of Chicago, 10 of them with a page on what that place does to an ice machine. The same visit in each.

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Glencoe

Glencoe's Ravine Bluff development holds seven Wright-designed houses plus a Wright bridge and markers, giving the village the world's third largest group of his structures.

Gold Coast

Gold Coast hotels, restaurants and high-rise lounges run ice machines whose remote condensers sit on roofs above the lake, facing winter wind and summer heat, and a condo with a home bar may add a compact undercounter unit.

Lakeview

Lakeview bars near Wrigley Field go through their bins fast on game days, so an ice machine that falls behind is noticed at once, while the apartments around them rarely hold more than a compact unit at a small home bar.

Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park's taverns and restaurants run ice machines hardest in summer, when the patios fill, and the neighborhood's greystones sometimes add an undercounter unit to a basement bar whose drain needs a pump.

Near North Side

Towers of luxury apartments stand alongside stone mansions in the Gold Coast, the Near North Side's wealthiest pocket.

Oak Park

Oak Park's restaurants and historic houses both run ice machines, and in a house with an old basement an undercounter unit's water line may pass along cold foundation walls that chill it through a hard January.

River Forest

River Forest is home to two universities, Dominican University and Concordia University Chicago.

West Loop / Near West Side

Restaurants line Randolph Street, and Greektown is a restaurant and nightlife corridor on Halsted Street between Van Buren and Madison.

Wilmette

North America's first and only Baháʼí House of Worship stands in Wilmette.

Winnetka

Winnetka's large houses often keep a clear-ice undercounter machine at the bar and another by the pool, and one on a porch or in a pool house has its water drained before the first hard freeze.

Also covered in Cook County

BeverlyBeverly may take its name from Beverly, Massachusetts, suggested by resident Alice Helm French, or the Rock Island Railroad may have named it for the hilly ground.
ChicagoNearly 57 million people visited Chicago's cultural institutions, Lake Michigan beaches, restaurants and other sights in 2025.
Edison ParkEdison Park, named with Thomas Edison's blessing in 1890, had 11,525 residents in 2020 and one of the highest concentrations of Irish ancestry in Chicago.
EvanstonFrench explorers called this stretch of shore Grosse Pointe, after a point of land about 13 miles north of the Chicago River's mouth.
GlenviewNaval Air Station Glenview once based the Coast Guard's air-sea rescue helicopters for Chicago and Lake Michigan.
La GrangeAbout 14,000 years ago La Grange lay on the shoreline of glacial Lake Chicago, the lake that preceded Lake Michigan.
NorthbrookNorthbrook is home to the Ed Rudolph Velodrome, the Chicago Curling Club and the Northbrook Court shopping mall.
Park RidgeAdvocate Lutheran General Hospital, with 3,693 employees, is the largest employer in Park Ridge.
West TownWest Town takes in Ukrainian Village, where immigrants clustered around shops, restaurants and banks in which people spoke their language.
Western SpringsWestern Springs became a village by a public vote of 34 to 25.

A visit in
Cook County.

Four steps from the call to a working ice machine, the same in all 20 places of Cook County.

What repairs cost

01One cycle, watched closely
02The cause, then the price
03Parts that travel with us
04A harvest before we go

When an ice machine
cannot wait in Cook County.

Across Cook County, the four problems where an ice machine puts water across a walkway or near power, smells of burning wiring, trips its breaker or hisses and smells of gas.

All 17 problems