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Worth seeing in and around Edgewater

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Wrigley Field

    Wrigley Field is a ballpark on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs, one of the city's two MLB franchises.

    4 km · baseball stadium in Chicago, Illinois, USA; home venue of the Chicago Cubs · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lincoln Park

    Lincoln Park is a 1,208-acre park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after US president Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles from Grand Avenue, on the south, to near Ardmore Avenue on the north, just north of the DuSable Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue.

    5.4 km · large park along the lakefront of Chicago, Illinois' North Side · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Northeastern Illinois University

    Northeastern Illinois University is a public university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1867 by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, it was established as the first teacher training school in Cook County.

    4.4 km · state university in Chicago · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Graceland Cemetery

    Graceland Cemetery is a large historic garden cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Established in 1860, its main entrance is at the intersection of Clark Street and Irving Park Road.

    3.2 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Lincoln Square

    Lincoln Square is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the North Side of Chicago. It encompasses the smaller neighborhoods of Ravenswood, Ravenswood Gardens, Bowmanville, Budlong Woods, as well as Lincoln Square itself.

    2.6 km · Lincoln Square, Chicago · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Leather Archives and Museum

    The Leather Archives & Museum is a community archives, library, and museum located in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded by Chuck Renslow and Tony DeBlase in 1991, its mission is making “leather, kink, BDSM, and fetish accessible through research, preservation, education and community engagement." Renslow and DeBlase founded the museum to combat the loss and suppression of leather and fetish community history during the AIDS crisis.

    1.7 km · archives and museum of the Leather subculture · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Rosehill Cemetery

    Rosehill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. At 350 acres, it is the largest cemetery in the city of Chicago and its first private cemetery.

    1 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    North Park University

    North Park University is a private Christian university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1891 by the Evangelical Covenant Church.

    3.9 km · Private university in Chicago, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Bohemian National Cemetery

    Bohemian National Cemetery is a cemetery at 5255 North Pulaski Road in North Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

    5.3 km · cemetery in Chicago · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Eternal Silence

    Eternal Silence, alternatively known as the Dexter Graves Monument or the Statue of Death, is a monument in Chicago's Graceland Cemetery and features a bronze sculpture of a hooded and draped figure set upon, and backdropped by, black granite. It was created by American sculptor Lorado Taft in 1909.

    3.1 km · bronze sculpture in Uptown, Chicago · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Edgewater

Airports
Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 20 km · Chicago Midway (MDW), 23 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 109 km
Stations
Wellington station, 5.3 km · Addison station, 4.1 km · Addison, 4.1 km · Southport, 4.4 km · Francisco, 3.7 km
  • Milwaukee → Edgewater
    119 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · $11–15
  • Grand Rapids → Edgewater
    197 km · quickest by road, 4h 34m · $24–33
  • Indianapolis → Edgewater
    277 km · quickest by road, 4h 47m · $24–33
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Edgewater

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Edgewater. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inChicago Executive Airport: A second designated reliever airport, it is an increasingly popular airport for chartered flights based in Wheeling and Prospect Heights.
  • Get inWaukegan Regional Airport: A third designated reliever airport, the Waukegan Regional Airport receives chartered flights.

From Wikivoyage: Chicagoland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,220 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,545 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,592 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,696 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,794 km

If you know how people move in Edgewater – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Edgewater

Edgewater is 15 km from Chicago, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.