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  Home 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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