Destinations · Illinois
Chicago/Chatham-South Shore
IL · 41.7515, -87.5813
From Chicago/Chatham-South Shore, Illinois, Byway's registries place 2 scenic byways and 1 national park within 30 miles.
Understand
This side of Chicago does not feature in many travel plans. If you ask a hotel concierge in the Near North to make arrangements for a trip here, the reaction — whether incredulous or simply bewildered — should be a sight to behold. Don't be fooled, though; Chatham and Greater Grand could be the highlight of your trip to Chicago. The best blues clubs, the last true juke joints, are way down here.
Day-trip loops
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Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Historic Route 66 · 8 mi · national
- Lincoln Highway · 17 mi · national
National parks
- Indiana Dunes National Park · 16 mi
Lookouts
- Des Plaines River · 13 mi
Named places
- Michelle Obama's Childhood Home · 1 mi
- Jesse Owens · 1 mi
- Stony Island Arts Bank · 1 mi
- Arthur Ashe Beach · 1 mi
- Confederate Mound · 2 mi
- James "Big Jim" Colosimo · 2 mi
- 50th Anniversary of the Rainbow Division WWI · 2 mi
- South Shore Beach · 2 mi
A day out of Chicago/Chatham-South Shore, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Chicago/Hyde Park · 3 mi
- Chicago/Bronzeville · 5 mi
- Chicago/Far Southeast Side · 5 mi
- Chicago/Bridgeport-Chinatown · 7 mi
- Chicago/Far Southwest Side · 7 mi
- Evergreen Park · 7 mi