Elston Ace Hardware

The Hyde Park location of Elston Ace Hardware is on S. Lake Park Avenue near 55th Street. For homeowners and landlords in the area’s older apartment buildings and graystones, the store handles small repair jobs that would otherwise mean a drive: pipe cutting and threading, glass cutting and glass repair, screen repair and acrylic sheet cutting. The key counter cuts house keys, programs car keys and replaces key fob batteries, and the paint desk does color matching. Propane exchange and CO2 refills are also available.

What to know

• Cuts and threads pipe in the store.
• Repairs glass and screens and cuts glass and acrylic sheet.
• Cuts keys, programs car keys and replaces key fob batteries.
• Does paint color matching, propane exchange and CO2 refills.
• Lake Park Avenue runs alongside the Metra Electric line.