A backyard patio with a wood-fired pizza oven and dark walnut cabinets, seen close at the pizza oven's mouth.

Chicago, IL

Pizza oven repair in Cook County.

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

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What Cook County does
to a pizza oven.

Where pizza ovens sit in Cook County: older housing stock, custom-built pizza ovens, mixed housing.

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Older housing stock

Older neighborhoods keep some of the country's longest-running pizzerias, whose deck and brick ovens have been rebuilt around the same flue for decades, and a smoke or draw problem there is traced up the old chimney before anything in the oven is replaced.

Custom-built pizza ovens

Specified patios often pair an imported dome with a local burner kit and a chimney from a third maker, and parts are ordered from each model plate, since two ovens that look alike may take different burners and floor tiles.

Mixed housing

Streets of old and new houses hold pizza ovens of every age, from a mason-built brick dome decades old to a new countertop gas model with a digital thermometer, and the technician carries parts and refractory mortar for both.

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 a pizza oven. The same visit in each.

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Glencoe

Glencoe holds the world's third-largest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings, including seven houses in the Ravine Bluffs subdivision.

Gold Coast

On the Gold Coast, pizza ovens mostly belong to the restaurants at the foot of the towers, whose deck and conveyor ovens vent up through tall buildings, and a private gas oven turns up only on a terrace sheltered well enough that the lake wind cannot reach its flame.

Lakeview

Lakeview mixes crowded two-flat yards with a dense run of pizzerias near Wrigley Field, where deck ovens bake without a pause on game days, and both the shop decks and the backyard domes are checked each spring for cracked stones.

Lincoln Park

Lincoln Park's greystones back onto small yards and wooden rear porches, and an open-flame pizza oven belongs on the ground or a masonry pad well away from those porches, where its chimney can rise clear of the eaves.

Near North Side

Ike Sewell and Ric Riccardo opened the first Pizzeria Uno on the Near North Side in 1943, and the restaurant claims to have originated deep-dish pizza.

Oak Park

Oak Park's deep lots and Prairie-era houses suit a freestanding dome at the back of the garden, and an oven left closed from November to May comes back with a mouse nest in the ash slot or a flue plugged with leaves.

River Forest

River Forest is known for early 20th-century houses in many styles, among them several Frank Lloyd Wright designs, including the Winslow House, and other Prairie School homes.

West Loop / Near West Side

McDonald's corporate headquarters now stands on Randolph Street, where Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Studios used to be.

Wilmette

Wilmette is named for Archange and Antoine Ouilmette, after Archange Ouilmette was granted 1,280 acres of land in present-day Wilmette and Evanston.

Winnetka

Winnetka's lakeside estates sometimes build a masonry pizza oven into a stone terrace, and Lake Michigan's damp winters freeze the moisture inside that dome, so a crack check and a series of small drying fires open the season there.

Also covered in Cook County

BeverlyBeverly was folded into the Village of Washington Heights in 1874, became a dry area that barred saloons and liquor sales, and nearly all of its houses date from before 1969.
ChicagoChicago incorporated as a city on March 4, 1837, near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi watershed, and for decades it grew faster than any city in the world.
Edison ParkEdison Park took its name in 1890 with Thomas Edison's blessing, after developers had promoted the availability of electricity there.
EvanstonMethodist business leaders who had founded Northwestern University in 1851 planned Evanston and named it for John Evans, one of their number.
GlenviewWhen Naval Air Station Glenview closed in 1995, its land became The Glen, a 1,121-acre development that makes up about 15 percent of the village.
La GrangeLa Grange was founded by Franklin Dwight Cossitt, a Chicago wholesale grocer, and incorporated on June 11, 1879.
NorthbrookNorthbrook incorporated in 1901 as Shermerville, after Frederick Schermer, the German immigrant who gave the land for its first train station.
Park RidgePark Ridge's best-known landmark is the Pickwick Theatre, an Art Deco building from 1928.
West TownWest Town takes in much of Chicago's old Polish Downtown, once the capital of American Polonia and home to the Polish National Alliance and the Polish Daily News.
Western SpringsFarmer Joseph Vial built a cabin in 1834 on what is now Plainfield Road, once a Native American trail through the south of Western Springs.

A visit in
Cook County.

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

What repairs cost

01Gas, power and draft come first
02The cause, and its cost
03Parts that ride along
04Fired up before we go

When a pizza oven
cannot wait in Cook County.

Across Cook County, the four problems where a pizza oven smells of gas, lets fire out of its mouth or into its chimney, gives off a burning electrical smell, or pushes its smoke back into the room.

All 17 problems