HVAC Service in Back of the Yards, Chicago

Back of the Yards takes its name from the Union Stock Yards, which operated just to the north until 1971 and employed generations of residents. The old stone Stock Yard Gate still stands as a landmark.

The housing is mostly frame and brick workers’ cottages and two-flats built for stockyard families in the late 1800s and early 1900s.

Many of these homes have been heated by the same furnace or boiler for a long time, and some are on equipment that has been repaired many times.

Safety checks on older equipment and venting are an important part of every fall service in a neighborhood with housing this age.

Many homes here have been in the same families since the stockyard years, and some still have equipment that has been patched for decades. A careful inspection before winter is often the most valuable visit an owner can schedule.