Lakeview is a community running along Lake Michigan with its borders from Addison to the north, Diversey to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, and the Chicago River to the west. The legend is that the community was named for the “Lakeview Hotel,” built in 1853, just four miles north of downtown.

The neighborhood is known for being one of the city’s most scenic and walkable areas, bordering both lake Michigan and the Chicago river giving it many opportunities for boating, jogging, volleyball, golfing, skating, biking, fishing and more. Culturally the community has a great deal of shopping, restaurants, small theaters, intimate music venues, and a large gay and lesbian community, which mainly resides on the Halsted strip known as “Boystown.”

Lakeview is known for one-and-two-bedroom condos on the eastern border, along with Victorian gray stones, large single-family homes and grandiose mansions that date back to the 1800s. The western border contains rehabbed vintage apartments/condos, multi units, storefront conversions, lofts, and lovely single-family homes.