Lincoln Park Athletic Club
Chicago, IL 60614
Phone: (773) 529-2022
- Directions:
- El: Brown Line to Diversey
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- Hours:
- Mon-Thu 5am-11pm, Fri 5am-10pm, Sat-Sun 7am-9pm
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Editorial Review for Lincoln Park Athletic Club – by Lindsay Beller
The Scene
Formerly a social and athletic club for German immigrants, a $3 million renovation retained much of the original building's architecture, including exposed brick walls and hand-cut tiles that decorate the indoor pool. While friendly staff greets you as you are, expect good-looking crowds.
The Workout
Two cardio areas sport bikes, treadmills, stair and cross-training machines, where personal and wall television sets take your mind off the burn. On the top floor, weight machines and free weights lead to a stretching area and aerobics studio for classes like cardio kickbox and karate. Try yoga and Pilates in the smaller studio downstairs. If you really want your heart to race, hop on a bike in the state-of-the-art Spinning studio. Expecting moms can participate in prenatal yoga and special exercise classes. An outdoor climbing wall is open year-round; practice indoors on a rotating wall.
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Insider Tips
ParkingThe adjacent parking lot is free 5am-5:30am and 9pm-close. Otherwise, pay $2 for up to 3 hours with validated ticket.
Know Before You GoAll personal belongings must be placed in a locker, but the club requires you to provide your own lock. Overnight lockers are available for $10 a month.
Save MoneyFor $6 a visit, you can drop kids off for up to two hours at the Kid's Club childcare service next door.
The ExtrasTake advantage of the steam room and sauna in the changing area. Other amenities include massage therapy and personal trainers for an additional fee.
User Reviews for Lincoln Park Athletic Club
09/21/2007 Posted by dlgbas
My family had a membership at LPAC for over 8 years. As with all clubs it has its pros and cons. On the plus side the space is light, and open with a good amount of both aerobic and strength equipment. And the Kids Club is the best in the area by far. My major con, and it is a BIG ONE, is that they don’t really care about membership satisfaction. And management is too thin skinned to handle complaints. Specifically if you are a swimmer do not join. My wife and I both find access to the pool to be very important, and throughout the year kids programs and lessons fill the pool. At the most extreme during the summer the pool is largely unavailable to members from 2-5pm on weekdays. No lane is reserved for member use (LPAC is unique in this and even most of their sales team is unaware of this fact). When I suggested to management that they seemed to be focusing on generating revenue from kids by limiting access to facilities for membership I clearly touched a very raw nerve. How do I know—after dropping our membership to find a club with better kids access, I decided to re-join to have access to the very nice kids club for our children’s sake while my wife joined elsewhere with a better pool. We were not allowed to rejoin. Having spent about $25,000 in fees, training, and kids stuff we were very much surprised to find that our money was no good at LPAC. This is not a club who cares about its members, regardless of length of relationship or amount of money spent. Other examples—I asked if it would be possible to get LOOK toe clips on one of the many bikes in the spinning room. It took 3 requests and 2 months until I got a response which was NO. If you join LPAC and you get the feeling that they don’t care if you are happy you are right, they don’t. PS my wife is a candidate for double knee replacement surgery (one of the reasons why pool access is so important) but she couldn’t park in the handicapped parking spot because the owner parks there.
Pros: great kids club
Cons: no interest in customer satisfaction
1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
11/18/2006 Posted by 773chicago
I've tried out many gyms, mostly downtown, and I really believe that LPAC up in linclon park is the best gym in Chicago. The equipment, locker rooms and ambience at most higher-end gyms in Chicago are all quite good, so what really makes LPAC stand out to me are their personal trainers. They do an excellent job of selecting the staff at this club, they are very intelligent, friendly and dedicated to helping you out. Every trainer is certified to work with you on all of the equipment at the gym, and they cover many different specialties. You can easily hire a trainer for a single session to answer questions you have and teach you specific things, so it's entirely up to you whether you want a whole package of sessions or just one. They have trainers focused on triathlon and marathon training, and I've found them to be extremely knowledgeable and unbelievably helpful when I go over my training plans with them. Even with my enthusiasm for it, I really don't think I would be doing triathlons if it weren't for the help they've given me, and it's been so much fun. They also have many pre-natal classes, which I haven't seen elsewhere, and a good swim training class, and I've heard their yoga classes are excellent but I haven't tried them yet. I'm just really happy with this gym!
Pros: wow, the student rate here is cheap!
Cons: it's a very popular gym, so it can be busy at times. But you can usually get on the equipment you need.
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