HVAC Service in Douglas, Chicago

Douglas takes in the Illinois Institute of Technology campus, with its buildings by Mies van der Rohe, the Lake Meadows and Prairie Shores apartment complexes, and part of historic Bronzeville.

Housing ranges from 19th-century greystones and rowhouses to mid-century towers and newer townhomes.

Greystones often heat with boilers and radiators, mid-century towers use central systems with in-unit fan coils or heat pumps, and newer townhomes have gas furnaces with central air.

That range means the first question on any call is the building type, because the systems and the repairs differ so much.

The large mid-century apartment complexes in Douglas, such as Lake Meadows and Prairie Shores, were built with central heating and cooling plants. Residents there deal mostly with the in-unit equipment, while the building handles the boilers and chillers.