Destinations · Illinois
Chicago/Pilsen
IL · 41.8500, -87.6600
From Chicago/Pilsen, Illinois, Byway's registries place 2 scenic byways and 1 national park within 30 miles.
Understand
The first Europeans to settle Pilsen were Irish and German immigrants, who came to work at the factories and stockyards nearby. Those industries attracted Czech and Polish immigrants next, and in the late 1800s, the neighborhood was named in honor of the city back in the former's home in Bohemia. The streets of Pilsen still bear their mark — weathered stone castles like St. Adalbert's and Thalia Hall loom over buildings with colorful turrets and dashes of ornamentation completely absent of the Prairie School influence found elsewhere in Chicago.
Day-trip loops
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Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Historic Route 66 · inside · national
- Lincoln Highway · 24 mi · national
National parks
- Indiana Dunes National Park · 24 mi
Lookouts
- Des Plaines River · 10 mi
Named places
- Private Florian S. Jacolik · 0 mi
- Escudo Nacional de Mexico · 1 mi
- Children's Museum of Art and Social Justice · 1 mi
- National Museum of Mexican Art · 1 mi
- Mount Bridgeport · 1 mi
- Marquette Monument · 1 mi
- Sergeant Gregory J. Sintic · 1 mi
- Seaman First Class James Humbert · 1 mi
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Chicago/Bridgeport-Chinatown · 1 mi
- Chicago · 2 mi
- Chicago/Near South · 2 mi
- Chicago/Near West Side · 2 mi
- Chicago/Bronzeville · 3 mi
- Chicago/Loop · 3 mi