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 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.

(844) 410-9163

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

Cook County
Three things about Lincoln Park
10 repairs we do here

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What Lincoln Park does
to an ice machine.

The 1,208-acre Lincoln Park runs along Lake Michigan and holds a zoo, the Lincoln Park Conservatory, the Chicago History Museum and the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum.

Public beaches, harbors with boating facilities and nature reserves line the park's northern stretch.

The Chicago Department of Public Health's food protection program covers about 16,000 food establishments citywide, from restaurants and bakeries to mobile food vendors.

On early June days, the immediate lakeshore can be 20 to 30 degrees cooler than O'Hare, Midway and the suburbs.

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Older housing stock

Older wiring may put an ice machine's compressor on a circuit shared with other bar equipment, and a breaker that trips each time the harvest starts is left off and reported rather than reset again and again; at a burning smell, switch the breaker off.

Family houses

Suburban offices, schools, clinics and youth sports clubs run their own ice machines, and a clinic's or a coach's machine that stops is a same-week problem, since ice for injuries and for drinks is needed every day.

Mixed housing

A landlord who inherited an ice machine with a building may have no manual and no service record, so the visit starts by reading the model plate, finding the maker's cleaning schedule and writing down what has been done.

A visit in
Lincoln Park.

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

In Lincoln Park 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