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Chicago Gaelic Park

Chicago Gaelic Park from directly overhead

Chicago Gaelic Park is a park in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 204 m. Mounded Landfill stands 259 m to the west-northwest, 18 miles off. The nearest named place is Convent Park, a park 0.3 miles away. Historic Route 66 passes 12 miles off. 19 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Official site

How to reach it

Coordinates41.62229, -87.76865

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • Convent Park: 0.3 mi
  • Tower Park: 0.7 mi
  • Heritage Park: 0.9 mi
  • El Morro Park: 0.9 mi
  • Camp Sullivan: 1.0 mi
Historic sites
  • 9/11 Memorial: 2.8 mi
  • Veteran's Memorial: 2.9 mi
  • Site of Robbins Airport: 3.2 mi
  • Palos Park Veteran's Memorial: 4.7 mi
  • Centennial Monument: 4.7 mi
Museums
Gardens
Attractions
  • Homewood Railroad Viewing Platform: 6.7 mi
  • Chinese House of Park Forest: 9.1 mi
  • The Grainery Building: 9.5 mi
  • Calumet City (Pink Smiley Face) Water Tower: 10.4 mi
  • Schmuhl School: 11.2 mi
Artworks
  • Marshall Major Taylor: 7.5 mi
  • Marshall Major Taylor: 7.9 mi
  • Yugo Griffin: 8.8 mi
  • Prairie Boat: 9.4 mi
  • John Paul II: 9.4 mi
Beaches: 23
Peaks: 19
  • Belly Button Hill: 2.0 mi
  • Centennial Hill: 10.3 mi
  • Signal Hill: 11.1 mi
  • Obama Center Sled Hill: 14.6 mi
  • Sledding Hill: 15.2 mi
Ghost towns: 2
Cliffs: 1
Springs: 1
  • Lake Strini: 17.1 mi

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Chicago Gaelic Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Mounded LandfillWNW 295°259 m17.6 mi
Players HillN 0°187 m17.5 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2719:03
June solstice05:1819:4720:30
September equinox06:3918:1418:50
December solstice07:1515:4016:25

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F263040516272777568554232
Precip in2.32.12.74.14.84.54.04.13.33.92.72.3

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Chicago Midway AP 3SW, 8 mi away.

  • Virginia Springbeauty14 obs
  • cut-leaved toothwort13 obs
  • Monarch12 obs
  • mayapple11 obs
  • DeKay's Brownsnake10 obs
  • cutleaf teasel10 obs
  • prairie trillium10 obs
  • Black Swallowtail9 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial site

OpenStreetMap element way/281979663

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