Destinations · Illinois
Chicago/Southwest Side
IL · 41.7930, -87.7270
From Chicago/Southwest Side, Illinois, Byway's registries place 2 scenic byways and 1 national park within 30 miles.
Understand
The Southwest Side is large enough where you cannot understand it without understanding its neighborhoods — it is united only by its blue-collar character, proximity to the airport, and of course, the White Sox.
Day-trip loops
Baked loops for Chicago/Southwest Side are growing. The weave below is measured today; plan a live day trip and the engine routes it now.
Within reach
Measured from Byway's own registries, 30 miles around town.
Scenic byways
- Historic Route 66 · inside · national
- Lincoln Highway · 20 mi · national
National parks
- Indiana Dunes National Park · 23 mi
Lookouts
- Des Plaines River · 6 mi
Named places
- Archer Heights Veterans Monument · 1 mi
- Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture · 1 mi
- Fire Museum of Greater Chicago · 2 mi
- Vietnam Veterans Memorial · 2 mi
- Darius and Girenas Memorial · 2 mi
- Tanya Safforld · 3 mi
- Clearing-Park Shops Memorial · 3 mi
- Solidarity Monument · 3 mi
A day out of Chicago/Southwest Side, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Cicero · 4 mi
- Berwyn · 5 mi
- Burbank · 5 mi
- Chicago/Bridgeport-Chinatown · 5 mi
- Chicago/Pilsen · 5 mi
- Evergreen Park · 5 mi