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Tuesday Market in Chicago's Lakeview Neighborhood Has Unique Location
Low-Line Market, located in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood, is one of the city's smallest markets in terms of number of vendors. It is not a one-stop-shop kind of market: During my visit Tuesday (July 16), I did not witness anyone selling meat, and the two produce vendors were outnumbered by stands selling bread and other baked goods.
But it's worth checking out perhaps Chicago's most unique farmers market location — Low-Line is squeezed in under the Southport CTA Brown Line L stop — and maybe combine it on a summer Tuesday afternoon with a stroll among the adjacent Southport Corridor's boutiques, restaurants and bars.
Los Rodriguez Farm of Eau Claire, Michigan, one of my favorite local produce vendors, was there. I was delighted to see (and buy) my first apricots of the season; the nectarines were also new.
Banter is a Chicago-based baking company with a growing presence in Chicago farmers markets. I bought a brown butter chocolate chip cookie and a chocolate cherry scone that, um, didn't make it into the market haul photo above.
I also bought a couple of the interesting-looking bagels from Irene's Finer Diner. Irene's suffered a major fire that has closed its home North Side location at 2012 W. Irving Park Rd. for repairs. But as so often happens in our food ecosystem, the community has rallied around them.
Terra e Mare restaurant in the South Loop (404 S. Wells) has provided Irene's with space to serve its breakfast specialties, and there is a GoFundMe to raise money to help with the rebuild at its original location. Click below if you can make a donation.
It was a modest market haul. Zucchini, apricots and sweet cherries from Los Rodriguez Farm and the bagels from Irene's Diner.
Low-Line Market, which is open Tuesdays from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. at 3410 N. Southport, is run by the Lakeview Roscoe Village Chamber of Commerce.
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