Destinations · Illinois
Near North, Chicago
IL · 41.8988, -87.6298
Historic Route 66 and Lincoln Highway are signed byways within 30 miles of Near North, Chicago, Illinois.
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
- Washington Square · 0 mi
- Chicago + State Park · 0 mi
- Archbishop Quigley · 0 mi
- Mariano Park · 0 mi
- Allow Me · 0 mi
- Loyola University Museum of Art · 0 mi
- Jane M. Byrne Plaza · 0 mi
- Richard H. Driehaus Museum · 0 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