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to Wrigley Field, the quintessential old-style baseball park that
is home to the Chicago Cubs baseball team, Wrigleyville is a popular
area for upbeat restaurants and bars, offbeat shops and clubs and
innovative off-Loop theaters.
Some of
Chicago’s most interesting architecture is found here on the
tree-lined side streets, filled with charming Victorian houses with
gables and intricate woodwork as well as unique brick row houses.
(Close to Wrigley Field and Graceland Cemetery)
 Lakeview
began as a farming community where celery and greenhouse flowers
were grown. While Chicago was being settled, immigrants from Germany
and Luxembourg began moving here, attracted to the high ground and
fertile land. By 1854, Lakeview had it’s first B&B, the Lake View
House on Grace Street. Working-class immigrants settled farther
inland where factories had been built. Affordable frame houses were
built for the workers and later German saloons and beer gardens
sprouted up, among them the Schlitz Brewing Company taverns.
You can still see many corner
bars that still sport the Schlitz logo imbedded in the brick facade.
Today you will find shops and
restaurants in abundance, the off-Loop theaters on Belmont near
Racine and “Boystown”, a strip on Halsted that offers gay clubs and
bars
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