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Chicago, IL

Ice maker 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 maker.

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10 repairs we do here

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What Cook County does
to an ice maker.

Where ice makers sit in Cook County: older housing stock, designed kitchens and bars, mixed housing.

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Older housing stock

Older houses often feed the ice maker through a saddle valve clamped onto a copper pipe, a fitting plumbers no longer recommend, and its rubber seal hardens with age until a slow drip at the clamp soaks the subfloor behind the unit.

Designed kitchens and bars

Where the undercounter ice maker's drain was taken to a hidden standpipe to keep the cabinetry clean, the trap and the air gap are easy to forget, and a smell from the bin or a slow drain after a remodel often comes from a hose sagging behind the panel.

Mixed housing

Mixed streets hold door ice makers with electronic self-tests next to freezer trays with a plain wire arm and a mechanical timer, and the older kind is often the easier one to put right, since its mold heater and water valve are still sold as separate parts.

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 maker. The same visit in each.

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Glencoe

Glencoe treats water from a single Lake Michigan intake and serves about 8,849 people.

Gold Coast

Lakefront towers with built-in ice makers and Astor Street houses with bar units, where building rules decide when a riser can be shut, and owners of the older houses often run a filter because the city is still replacing its lead service lines.

Lakeview

Walk-up rentals near Wrigley where an ice maker serves a new lease every year or two, its filter rarely changed in between, and owners ask whether an aging tray-style unit deserves one more valve.

Lincoln Park

Gut-rehabbed brick buildings where the owner's kitchen downstairs has a new ice maker on fresh plumbing, while the tenant's floor above keeps an older freezer ice maker on a line that runs past a cold outside wall.

Near North Side

The Near North Side lies north and east of the Chicago River, with Lake Michigan to the east and North Avenue, the city's early limit, to the north.

Oak Park

Century-old houses kept historic outside, whose kitchens feed new ice makers from old basement plumbing, where a line run along the foundation wall can freeze in a January cold snap.

River Forest

River Forest buys its water from Chicago through a master meter and has an emergency connection to Forest Park.

West Loop / Near West Side

Many former West Loop warehouses and factories have been converted to loft condominiums, restaurants, bars and art galleries.

Wilmette

Before its own plant opened on January 27, 1934, Wilmette bought its water from Evanston.

Winnetka

Architect-designed houses with a main kitchen ice maker and a bar or basement unit for holidays, drawing Lake Michigan water treated by the village, and working hardest from Thanksgiving through New Year's.

Also covered in Cook County

BeverlyBeverly, officially Beverly Hills, is a community area about 12 miles from the Loop that became part of the village of Washington Heights in 1874.
ChicagoChicago takes in Lake Michigan water through the Dunne and Jardine Dever cribs and through shore intakes at its Jardine and Sawyer plants.
Edison ParkEdison Park sits on the divide between the Des Plaines and Chicago rivers and was once a common portage for canoe travelers.
EvanstonEvanston runs its own water system with three surface-water intakes, according to the Illinois EPA.
GlenviewGlenview got its name in a village vote on May 7, 1895, beating choices such as Rugenville and Glen Hollow.
La GrangeLa Grange gets its water through a connection from McCook, and its old village wells have been abandoned.
NorthbrookNorthbrook had 35,222 residents in 2020 and lies in Northfield Township on the Lake County line.
Park RidgePark Ridge buys its water from Chicago through two connections, according to the Illinois EPA.
West TownWest Town was Chicago's most populous community area until the Near West Side passed it in the 1960s.
Western SpringsWestern Springs draws its drinking water from its own wells, three in regular use and one held for emergencies.

A visit in
Cook County.

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

What repairs cost

01Water traced from the valve to the mold
02A number before the work
03Everyday ice maker parts already on board
04Filled, frozen and dropped in front of you

When an ice maker
cannot wait in Cook County.

Across Cook County, the four problems where a water line, a drain or a leaking ice maker has water heading toward the floor, the cabinets or the wiring.

All 17 problems