Destinations · Illinois
Chicago/Near North
IL · 41.8988, -87.6298
From Chicago/Near North, Illinois, Byway's registries place 2 scenic byways and 1 national park within 30 miles.
Understand
The Near North includes the neighborhoods of River North, full of art galleries, commercial lofts, and some tourist restaurants, nightclubs and bars; Streeterville and the Gold Coast, with expensive living for rich folks and many of the city's most impressive hotels; and the most prestigious shopping district in Chicago, the Magnificent Mile on Michigan Avenue, which includes one of Chicago's most beloved landmarks, the Water Tower.
Day-trip loops
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Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Historic Route 66 · 1 mi · national
- Lincoln Highway · 27 mi · national
National parks
- Indiana Dunes National Park · 25 mi
Lookouts
- Des Plaines River · 14 mi
Named places
- Loyola University Museum of Art · 0 mi
- Richard H. Driehaus Museum · 0 mi
- Eli Schulman · 0 mi
- Chicago Sports Museum · 0 mi
- Oak Street Beach · 0 mi
- Museum of Contemporary Art · 0 mi
- Charnley-Pesky House Museum · 1 mi
- Illinois Holocaust Museum Presents Experience360 · 1 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Chicago/Loop · 1 mi
- Chicagoland · 1 mi
- Chicago · 2 mi
- Chicago/Near West Side · 2 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 2 mi
- Chicago/Near South · 3 mi