Lake View Toy Store Preps for Holidays After Devastating Flood
Lake View, IL – Every nook and cranny at Building Blocks Toy Store in Lake View is packed with enough colorful toys and games to make your inner-child squeal with joy, but it wasn’t long ago that this neighborhood staple was in danger of going under.
Located at 3306 N. Lincoln Ave, the toy store is still recovering from major flood during the summer caused by a broken pipe leading to a major sewer line. Katherine McHenry, owner of the now 16-year-old store, says it was a big blow to the niche store, and she’s still working to get everything back to normal.
“We did have a flood this summer, and we’re just trying to get back to that space,” McHenry said. “We’re going to repair the floor in January, and that’ll be the last of the repairs… After we had that incident, we did a sidewalk sale and sold whatever wasn’t destroyed but couldn’t be resold in the store. That was really just a tiny bite of the big apple.”
