A kitchen with a stainless wall-mount range hood and dark walnut cabinets, seen from below the range hood.

Chicago, IL

Range hood 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 range hood.

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What Cook County does
to a range hood.

Where range hoods sit in Cook County: older housing stock, custom hoods and inserts, mixed housing.

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Older housing stock

Historic districts often restrict new openings in a street-facing wall, so a range hood in an older house tends to vent through the rear wall or the roof along a run added in some earlier remodel, and that run is checked for grease and blockage.

Custom hoods and inserts

A pro-style burner surface of 36 or 48 inches sends far more heat and grease upward than a standard one, and the hood above it needs a blower sized to match, a duct to carry the air and, in a tight house, make-up air behind it.

Mixed housing

On a street of mixed ages a decades-old hood with a rocker switch can outlast a newer one with a keypad, since its plain switch and motor are still made while a keypad board no longer sold can end the hood's life.

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 range hood. The same visit in each.

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Glencoe

Glencoe is a Lake Michigan village in northeastern Cook County, 21 miles north of downtown Chicago.

Gold Coast

Gold Coast high-rise kitchens often vent into the building's exhaust or recirculate, with service calls timed to the freight elevator, while restored houses on Astor Street hide a hood insert in period cabinetry.

Lakeview

Lakeview two- and three-flats cook on gas under small hoods that vent through a rear wall or recirculate, and ice at the wall cap is a common winter reason a flap stops closing.

Lincoln Park

Post-fire brick rowhouses and greystones here carry the hood duct through a masonry wall, and on the coldest nights a damper that no longer seats lets a cold stream settle onto the burners.

Near North Side

The Near North Side packs more people per square mile than any other Chicago community area, and its skyscraper count trails only the Loop's.

Oak Park

Oak Park's historic districts review exterior work, so a new hood duct on a Prairie School or Queen Anne house is planned for a side or rear wall, and older ducts through those walls deserve an inspection.

River Forest

Prairie School designs sit among the many early-20th-century house styles River Forest is known for.

West Loop / Near West Side

Fulton River, Fulton Market and Greektown make up most of the West Loop, on the Chicago River's west bank.

Wilmette

Wilmette was officially incorporated on September 19, 1872, at Andrew Sherman's house on Greenleaf Avenue.

Winnetka

Architect-designed Winnetka houses often set a custom hood with an insert and a remote blower over a wide gas cooking surface, and holiday cooking is when that blower and its heat sensor are pushed hardest.

Also covered in Cook County

BeverlyThree in four homes in Beverly's 60643 ZIP code are detached houses.
ChicagoMore than a quarter of Chicago's housing, about 27 percent, is in two- to four-unit buildings.
Edison ParkMore than a third of the housing in Edison Park's 60631 ZIP code is from the 1940s and 1950s.
EvanstonSome 40 percent of Evanston's housing predates 1940, and nearly a fifth dates from the 1940s and 1950s.
GlenviewNearly a fifth of Glenview's homes went up in the 2000s, and about three in ten in the 1960s and 1970s.
La GrangeNearly two-thirds of La Grange's homes predate 1960, some 36 percent from before 1940 and 28 percent from the 1940s and 1950s.
NorthbrookFour in ten Northbrook homes carry a 1960s or 1970s construction date.
Park RidgeMore than a third of Park Ridge's homes date from the 1940s and 1950s.
West TownNearly half of the homes in West Town's 60622 ZIP code sit in two- to four-unit buildings.
Western SpringsPiped gas is the heating fuel in some 94 of every 100 occupied homes in Western Springs.

A visit in
Cook County.

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

What repairs cost

01Airflow, speed by speed
02A figure before any work
03Common parts in the van
04Pulling steam before we go

When a range hood
cannot wait in Cook County.

Across Cook County, the five problems where a range hood catches a grease fire, throws sparks, smells of hot wiring, trips the breaker or starts to come away from its mount.

All 17 problems