Success on the ice is no anomaly in Chicagoland, which has given us Olympic figure-skating gold medalist Evan Lysacek, who hails from Naperville. And, of course, Chicago is home base for the Blackhawks, 2010 Stanley Cup champs, professional hockey’s highest achievement.

So it doesn’t really surprise area ice arena managers that there’s been a bit of a rise in interest in their facilities, even as the warm summer months begin.

At Seven Bridges Ice Arena in Woodridge, the public is invited in to use the facility’s two rinks during the “public skates” sessions offered from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. weekdays.

Manager Dan Kroll said attendance at public skates usually falls off about this time of year.

“It seems, as it gets closer to summer, public skates drop off,” he said.

But this year, he said, the drop off isn’t as steep.

“I believe there’s been a little bit of a spike — I don’t believe it’s been a drastic spike,” he said.

Last Thursday, June 10, the day after the Blackhawks claimed victory over the Philadelphia Flyers, Kroll said he could see evidence of Blackhawks fever at his arena, open for public skate.

“There’s probably three or four kids out there wearing hockey jerseys,” he said.

The ice arena offers hockey league play for children and adults, figure skating school, and a summer skate camp that begins June 21 and runs through August 14.

At the Downers Grove Ice Arena, skating school director Barb Foltz said she felt the buzz about the Blackhawks building as the dream of winning the Stanley Cup began to come true.

“The excitement and the talk before the games — there was a lot of excitement, as far as kids coming in with the Blackhawks jerseys and putting the paint under their eyes,” she said. “We saw the fever.”

“I think our public skate might be up,” she said, referring to the sessions from 11 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Mondays and Fridays when the public can come in and skate without pucks and sticks.

Foltz said she’s been fielding more inquiries about adult leagues. The arena also caters to players over 40, who play hockey in what’s called an “Oldtimers” league.

The arena offers classes for adults and for children as young as 3 years old, which are wrapping up the spring session and will begin again in the fall, she said.