Lake View

Lake View is community area 6, one of Chicago’s 77 official community areas as defined by the City of Chicago. It borders Lincoln Park, North Center and Uptown. It covers about 3.1 square miles.

‘L’ stations inside its boundary: Sheridan (Red Line), Addison (Red Line), Southport (Brown Line), Paulina (Brown Line), Belmont (Red, Brown, Purple Lines) and Wellington (Brown, Purple Lines). Diversey (Brown, Purple Lines) sits on its boundary with Lincoln Park.

No Metra station sits inside its boundary. The nearest is the Metra station Ravenswood, about 1.9 miles in a straight line from the center of the area.

CTA bus routes that run through it: 8 Halsted, 9 Ashland, X9 Ashland Express, 22 Clark, 36 Broadway, 76 Diversey, 77 Belmont, 80 Irving Park, 134 Stockton/LaSalle Express, 135 Clarendon/LaSalle Express, 136 Sheridan/LaSalle Express, 143 Stockton/Michigan Express, 146 Inner Lake Shore/Michigan Express, 147 Outer DuSable Lake Shore Express, 148 Clarendon/Michigan Express, 151 Sheridan, 152 Addison and 156 LaSalle.

Chicago Park District land inside its boundary totals about 10 acres across 17 parks. The largest are Gill Park (2.4 acres), Wang Park (2.0 acres) and Kelly Park (1.4 acres).

Chicago Public Library branches inside its boundary: Lincoln Belmont and Merlo. Divvy has 64 bike-share stations in service inside its boundary.

City Special Service Area commercial districts covering part of it: Lake View East (SSA #8), North Halsted (SSA #18), CentLakeview/Wrigleyville (SSA #17) and West Lakeview (SSA #27).

It falls within the 32nd, 44th, 46th, and 47th Wards.

Sources: City of Chicago open data portal (community area and ward boundaries, ‘L’ stations, Chicago Park District parks, CTA bus routes, Chicago Public Library branches, Divvy stations, Special Service Areas); Metra station locations derived from Cook County Assessor parcel proximity data (2025).