Barber Shop in Portage Park, Chicago

Portage Park isn't the neighborhood Jose's Barber Shop serves from a distance — it's the address. The shop sits at 4202 N Milwaukee Ave, on the stretch of Milwaukee that runs northwest out of Six Corners, inside the 60641 ZIP code that most of the neighborhood shares.

That means a haircut here is a local errand rather than a trip. If you live on the streets around the park itself — the big one at Irving Park and Central, with the pool and the fieldhouse — you're a short drive or a bus ride up Milwaukee. Plenty of regulars walk. There is street parking along Milwaukee and on the residential side streets, which matters more on a Saturday than a Tuesday.

The shop is open six days a week, closed Sunday, and takes walk-ins alongside online bookings. The whole menu is available here: men's haircuts and fades at $50, the hot-towel beard shave with a cut at $60, kids' cuts at $50 and line-ups at $40. José works in English and Spanish, which in a neighborhood this bilingual is less of a feature than a requirement.