House · 36,000 sq ft

Four floors, one door

4700 S Cottage Grove Ave, Chicago, IL 60615. Built to hold a Chicago winter and a Friday dinner rush.

The house is a rec building, not a school and not a church basement with folding chairs. Heat works. Lights stay on until 8:15 pm on school nights. Saturday runs 10–5.

Green Line Cottage Grove is a six-minute walk. Bus 4 stops on the avenue. The daytime Theatre photo is downtown State Street, not our door. It stands for the city’s hard lights. The house itself sits at 4700 S Cottage Grove.

Coat room on the basement stair. Pegs numbered. If a kid arrives underdressed in January, staff pull a spare. That is policy, not charity theater.

Daytime Chicago Theatre marquee on State Street with the elevated tracks at left and moving cars. — Chicago Theatre, State Street, daytime. Not the Cottage Grove door. Wikimedia Commons.

Floors

Basement gym: Indoor run, basketball, mats. Winter default when the lake wind makes the lot useless. Restrooms and lockers. Coat room at the stair so wet gear never hits the gym floor.
1F kitchen / commons: Serving line, dishwashing, long tables. Family desk by the door — Mina Patel. No vending wall of junk. Dinner is cooked here. Allergen board posted.
2F library / labs: Stacks, homework tables, maker benches, a few machines that stay behind a locked grate until a coach is in the room.
3F quiet rooms: Small rooms. Tutoring pairs. Kids who need less noise. No sleepovers. Out by close.

Empty lecture room with rows of black chairs facing a large video wall; windows look out over trees and a river. — Empty lecture room with a video wall — not a playroom and not our third floor. Stock interior used to stand in for talks and family meetings. Wikimedia Commons.

Aerial dusk view of downtown Chicago towers with Lake Michigan behind them. — Chicago Loop skyline at dusk. Location picture, not the rec house. Wikimedia Commons.

Young children eating fruit from bright bowls at small pink tables, with wooden bunk beds and a kindergarten mural on the wall. — Young children eating in a kindergarten room with bunks. Not the Cottage Grove kitchen line. Photograph on file.

Child in a blue shirt sitting on grass with head down and arms wrapped around knees. — Child sitting on grass, head down. Quiet-room days exist. This is not a gym drill. Photograph on file.

Hours and door

Monday–Friday2:15–8:15 pm
Saturday10–5
SundayClosed
Front desk+1 (773) 555-0162

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