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 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.

(844) 410-9163

Mon–Sat, 8am–8pm

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

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What Oak Park does
to an ice machine.

Oak Park banned alcohol sales at its founding, eased the rule in 1973 to let restaurants and hotels serve alcohol with meals, and loosened it again in 2002.

The village has three defined historic districts, part of a preservation focus that began in the 1970s.

Oak Park is one of four suburban Cook County areas left out of the county health department's food safety program, along with Evanston, Skokie and Stickney Township.

During the 1995 heat wave, record dew points above 80°F were reported at stations in Illinois and neighboring states.

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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

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.

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
Oak Park.

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

In Oak 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