2019-2020 Community Guide & Business Directory DISCOVER LINCOLNWOOD! LIVE • PLAY • SHOP • DINE Proud Mercedes-Benz Dealer for Six Decades Pictured Left to Right: George Loeber, Executive Vice-President; Michael Loeber, President. PROUDL Y SER experience MA VING THE C TTERS! OMMUNITY F OR O VER 25 YEARS Proud Mercedes-Benz Dealer for Six Decades DISCOVER a senior living community you’ll love today and all your tomorrows. Pictured Left to Right: George Loeber, Executive Vice-President; Michael Loeber, President. Open the door to luxury senior living. 847-686-2888 Independent Living | Assisted Living | Skillied Nursing & Rehabilitation | Memory Care AL License #52605 | 7000 North McCormick Boulevard | Lincolnwood, IL 60712 WWW.SENIORLIFESTYLE.COM Welcome Dear Lincolnwood Chamber 4433 W. TOUHY AVE. LINCOLNWOOD, ILLINOIS 60712 Partners & Friends: We are pleased to present the new edition of the Lincolnwood WHAT’S INSIDE THE GUIDE Chamber of Commerce 2019-2020 Community Resource Guide. This complimentary, hand-delivered publication connects you to WELCOME 4 the center of the Village of Lincolnwood. FROM THE OFFICE OF THE 6 MAYOR At your fingertips is contact information for various business ABOUT THE CHAMBER & CHAMBER BOARD members of the Chamber, as well as easy access to useful OF DIRECTORS 8 information assembled from numerous community HELPFUL NUMBERS 10 stakeholders including the Chamber of Commerce, the Village of Lincolnwood, the Lincolnwood Public Library, Oakton LINCOLNWOOD IS ABOUT LOCATION 12 Community College, School District 74 and Niles Township High HISTORY 14 School District 219. PARKS & RECREATION 16 More than 5,000 copies are delivered door-to-door with an additional 1,000 copies distributed throughout the year via LINCOLNWOOD SCHOOL DISTRICT 74 18–19 Village Hall new resident packages, at member businesses LINCOLNWOOD MAP 20–21 and at numerous Chamber-sponsored events. The Community Guide can also be found online at LincolnwoodChamber.com. NILES TOWNSHIP HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT 219 22–23 The Lincolnwood Chamber of Commerce & Industry is a coalition LINCOLNWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY 24-25 of area businesses, industries, organizations and professionals NEIGHBORHOODS & THE COMMUNITY 26 that pool their talents and resources to improve the economic, OPEN FOR BUSINESS 28 civic and cultural climate of our community. Your support of Lincolnwood’s vibrant business community and Lincolnwood PUBLIC WORKS 29 Chamber members is important to the entire village. Please call NILES TOWNSHIP GOVERNMENT 30 us at 847-752-4111 if you’d like information about becoming a Chamber of Commerce member. MEMBER LISTINGS 32–35 Thank you to all of our advertisers who support our community in numerous ways and have made this guide possible. Please remember to support our local businesses. See you around the neighborhood! LINCOLNWOOD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE & INDUSTRY Cover photo credit: Special Thanks to Lifetime Treasures Photography for providing the cover photo and supporting photos of the village within this guide. Information in this guide was compiled by the Lincolnwood Chamber of Commerce & Indus- try and published April 2019. Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the informa- tion in this book. The publisher cannot guarantee the correctness of all the information available to it and assumes no liability arising from error or omission. Comments concerning this book should be sent to Lincolnwood Community Guide, 4433 W. Touhy Ave., Lincolnwood, IL 60712. Copyright ©2019 Lincolnwood Chamber of Commerce & Industry. All rights reserved. Reproducing any part of this book by photocopying, by electronic storage and retrieval or by any means is prohibited. 4 Lincolnwood Community Guide 2019-20 BUICK • GMC • CADILLAC • FOR A GREAT EXPERIENCE! • L I N C O L N W O O D From the Office of the Mayor Dear Lincolnwood Chamber Residents & Visitors: I’d like to take this opportunity to welcome you to Lincolnwood, available in District 1860, the Town Center Mall and throughout where successful businesses and strong values work together the Village. to support a community on the rise. In the following pages of this guide, you will find information about our Village, which Educationally, Lincolnwood School District 74 offers an award- is committed to working as partners with the Lincolnwood winning elementary, middle school and junior high school with Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and its’ varied cutting edge facilities and an exceptional staff of educators. membership, for the betterment of our Village. The Board Niles West High School, which has been awarded honors of Directors of the LCCI serves as a link between businesses, nationally and provides one of the best public school educational providing opportunities to meet, network and build local experiences in the area, is located two miles from Lincolnwood in connections. For those businesses that are not yet part of the Skokie. Nearby private Grade and High School options include: LCCI, please take this opportunity to join a group working toward Loyola Academy in Wilmette, Notre Dame H.S. in Niles, Regina an ever brighter future for Lincolnwood. If you are a resident, H.S. in Wilmette, Ida Crown and Arie Crown Jewish Academy, customer of a local business, or simply a guest in Lincolnwood, Hillel Torah NS Day School, Oscar Fasman Skokie Yeshiva in please make it a point to use the services of the advertisers and Skokie, MCC Academy in Morton Grove, and ICC School in Chamber members listed herein. Chicago. As the Mayor of Lincolnwood, I would like to share some Our housing inventory runs the gamut from quaint bungalows information with you about the Village we are proud to call and cottages, to ranch-style homes and the popular mid-century home. Lincolnwood has a population of approximately 12,500 style split-levels. Condominium and apartment units round residents, with over 4,400 residences. The Village’s municipal out the many residential options. Prices typically range from neighbors include the City of Chicago and the Village $300,000 to well over $1 million, appealing to first of Skokie. The community is a compact 2.7 square time home buyers’, growing families and empty miles of family-oriented neighborhoods on tree- nesters. There has been significant gentrification lined streets and satellite parks. Our outstanding of homes throughout our Village, building strong school district is a draw to young families who value communities. Residents who move to our Village education. find many reasons to stay and establish roots, evidenced by the fact that more than 30% of The Village offers three major commercial corridors, households have lived in their home for more than while the Lincolnwood Business Center offers space twenty years. The Carrington of Lincolnwood and for light industry, warehouse and manufacturing. Mayor Barry I. Bass Lincolnwood Place, provide two full-service premier There are three active Tax Increment Financing independent and assisted living developments for Districts (TIF’s) which provide funding opportunities for new elderly residents. and growing businesses, including the new North Lincoln TIF approved in 2019. The North Lincoln TIF was approved Lincolnwood residents are united in pride of their rich cultural in conjunction with a new transformational development heritage and inclusivity of residents from all backgrounds. The for the village, at the corner of Lincoln and Touhy Avenues. Village has welcomed ethnic groups from around the world, with This development, known as District 1860, is a mixed-use approximately 34% of our residents immigrating from other development which will contain 85,000 square feet of retail countries. We celebrate the multi-cultural background which commercial, entertainment and restaurant uses, as well as 300 forms the patchwork that is the heartbeat of our community. In luxury apartments and a 220-room Marriott select service hotel. fact, approximately 47% of residents speak a second language. The Village has joined with Tucker Development Group, in this Lincolnwood is committed to the arts. We are proud of our monumental and historic development to forge a partnership Lincolnwood Chamber Orchestra (LCO) and the vibrant Youth that recognizes Lincolnwood’s value and potential. I encourage Strings Orchestra. The LCO is comprised of the area’s finest you to join our flourishing business community by contacting professional musicians. We were one of the first communities Community Development Director Steve McNellis, whose in the area to establish an ongoing commitment to the arts by information is listed in this booklet, and explore all of the options providing and underwriting space and programs for sculpture > continued on page 8 6 Lincolnwood Community Guide 2019-20 KITCHEN • CABINETRY • BATH • DECORATIVE HARDWARE 3160 SKOKIE VALLEY ROAD • HIGHLAND PARK SHOPSTUDIO41.COM From the Mayor CONTINUED About the Chamber installations, and exhibiting sculptures from throughout the world in Centennial Park and the Lincolnwood Business Center. Showcasing various Chicago area artists in our municipal center The Chamber is the primary business liaison to the village. The earned us the title of an “Arts Friendly Community” in 2007, and Chamber staff is available to answer many business-related is strongly supported to date. The Lincolnwood Public Library, questions. Our mission is to grow and support local businesses established in 1978 and renovated and modernized in 2017, and generate partnerships to strengthen our community. offers a variety