Destinations · Illinois
Chicagoland
IL · 41.9000, -87.6500
Historic Route 66 and Lincoln Highway are signed byways within 30 miles of Chicagoland, Illinois.
Understand
Though founded in 1833, the City of Chicago was incorporated in 1837. Spurred by port and rail traffic, the City became one of the fastest growing urban areas in the world for several decades and gradually became both the center of the Chicagoland region and the entire Midwest. Much of the growth of the region can be linked directly to Chicago and its history.
Day-trip loops
Ready-made loops for Chicagoland are growing. What is within reach 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 · 2 mi · national
- Lincoln Highway · 27 mi · national
National parks
- Indiana Dunes National Park · 26 mi
Lookouts
- Des Plaines River · 13 mi
Named places
- Goose Island Overlook · 0 mi
- Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art · 0 mi
- Goose Island Overlook Garden · 0 mi
- Stanton Park · 0 mi
- Wild Mile · 0 mi
- City Farm Park · 0 mi
- Chicago Lights Urban Farm · 1 mi
- Montgomery Ward Park · 1 mi
A day out of Chicagoland, planned on real roads
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More day-trip bases nearby
- Chicago/Loop · 1 mi
- Chicago/Near North · 1 mi
- Chicago/Wicker Park · 1 mi
- Chicago · 2 mi
- Chicago/Near West Side · 2 mi
- Chicago/Logan-Bucktown · 3 mi