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Main Line Station Rest Area - Southbound

Main Line Station Rest Area - Southbound from directly overhead

Main Line Station Rest Area - Southbound is a rest area in Illinois, at a modelled elevation of 219 m. The nearest named place is Main Line Station Rest Area - Northbound, a rest area 0.7 miles away. 72 named places lie within 25 miles.

Visiting

What to expect

Operated by: Illinois Department of Transportation

Getting there

How to reach it

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Coordinates40.56120, -88.06146

Around it

72 named places within 25 miles

Parks57

Be Ja Park: 2.9 mi
Ce Bee Park: 2.9 mi
De Cee Park: 3.0 mi
Memorial Park: 3.0 mi
Healey Park: 3.1 mi

Nature reserves7

Loda Pheasant Habitat Area: 2.3 mi
Loda Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve: 2.5 mi
Patton Woods - Middle Fork River Forest Preserve: 11.9 mi
Tomlinson Pioneer Cemetery Prairie Nature Preserve: 15.5 mi
Sibley Grove Nature Preserve: 16.1 mi

Historic sites4

Gifford War Memorial: 18.2 mi
Vets Memorial: 19.1 mi
JB-2 Loon (WWII V-1 German Buzz Bomb Replica): 19.6 mi
Origin of Milford: 19.6 mi

Museums2

Rantoul Historical Society: 17.8 mi
Iroqouis County Historical Museum: 22.5 mi

Rest areas1

Main Line Station Rest Area - Northbound: 0.7 mi

Gardens1

Constitution Grove: 18.0 mi

Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

Date	Sunrise	Golden hour	Sunset
March equinox	06:57	18:28	19:04
June solstice	05:22	19:46	20:27
September equinox	06:40	18:15	18:51
December solstice	07:13	15:46	16:29

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Avg °F	24	28	39	50	62	71	73	71	65	53	40	29
Precip in	2.0	1.9	2.6	3.7	4.5	4.3	4.0	3.5	3.0	3.3	2.9	2.2

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Paxton 2 WSW, 9 mi away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/217587171

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