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.

Cook County, Chicago

Ice machine repair in 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.

(844) 410-9163

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Cook County
Three things about Lakeview
10 repairs we do here

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What Lakeview does
to an ice machine.

Wrigleyville surrounds Wrigley Field, which in 1988 became the last Major League Baseball park to install lights for night games.

The Belmont Theater District has more than 20 theaters and live performance venues near the Belmont L station.

One of the area's first permanent buildings, put up in 1853, was the Hotel Lakeview, named for its unobstructed view of the Lake Michigan shore.

Midway Airport recorded eight consecutive days of 100°F or more in July 1936.

Also known as Lake View.

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Mixed housing

On a mixed street storefronts change hands, and an ice machine left behind by a past tenant may have gone years without cleaning, so a new owner's first visit covers a full sanitize, a new filter and a check of the drain.

Small cafes and back bars

Behind a narrow bar the undercounter ice machine is boxed in by coolers and a sink, and an air-cooled unit forced to breathe its own warm exhaust runs long cycles and drops thin cubes, so the clearance at its front grille is checked before the sealed system.

Family houses

Family houses in the suburbs often place an undercounter ice machine in a game room or a basement bar far from the kitchen sink, and its drain runs to a pump or a laundry standpipe, which is where a slow drain is usually found.

A visit in
Lakeview.

Four steps from the call to a working ice machine in Lakeview, 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 Lakeview.

In Lakeview as anywhere, these four call for the ice machine to be shut down and left that way for our visit: water spreading from it or its drain across a walkway or toward an outlet, a burning or hot electrical smell, a breaker that trips when it starts, or a hiss or gas smell at a machine charged with flammable R-290.

All 17 problems