Grand Boulevard

Worth seeing in and around Grand Boulevard

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
   University of Chicago

   The University of Chicago is a private research university in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The university is composed of an undergraduate college and four graduate research divisions: the Arts & Humanities Division, the Biological Sciences Division, the Physical Sciences Division, and the Social Sciences Division, all of which include various organized departments and institutes.

   3.1 km · private university in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Illinois Institute of Technology

   The Illinois Institute of Technology is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Tracing its history to 1890, the present name was adopted upon the merger of the Armour Institute and Lewis Institute in 1940.

   2.5 km · American university · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Kenneth C. Griffin Museum of Science and Industry

   The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry is a private, non-profit science museum located in Jackson Park, the Hyde Park neighborhood, Chicago, Illinois. It is adjacent to Lake Michigan and the University of Chicago campus.

   3.9 km · museum in Chicago, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa

   The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia and North Africa, formerly known as the Oriental Institute, is a research institute and museum of the University of Chicago, located in Hyde Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States. Established in May 1919, the institute was founded by Egyptologist and professor James Henry Breasted with funds donated by John D. Rockefeller Jr.

   3.2 km · Chicago archaeology museum and research center · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Robie House

   The Frederick C. Robie House is a historic house museum on the University of Chicago campus in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Designed by the architect Frank Lloyd Wright in the Prairie style, it was completed in 1910.

   3.2 km · U.S. National Historic Landmark in Chicago, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Fountain of Time

   Fountain of Time, or simply Time, is a sculpture by Lorado Taft, measuring 126 feet 10 inches in length, situated at the western edge of the Midway Plaisance within Washington Park in Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. The sculpture is inspired by Henry Austin Dobson's poem "Paradox of Time".

   3.1 km · sculpture by Lorado Taft in Chicago · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Enrico Fermi Institute

   The Enrico Fermi Institute is a physics research institute of the University of Chicago. It was founded in September 1945 with Samuel King Allison as director.

   2.6 km · research institute · Wikipedia
8. 08
   Catholic Theological Union

   Catholic Theological Union is a private Catholic graduate school of theology in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was formed in Hyde Park as a union of schools from three Catholic religious institutes and has since been sponsored by 24 institutes and Catholic faith communities.

   3.2 km · Roman Catholic seminary and school of theology and ministry in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia
9. 09
   S. R. Crown Hall

   S. R. Crown Hall is a building on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Completed in 1956, the structure was designed by the architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for the IIT's College of Architecture, which he led for two decades.

   2.3 km · university building of the Illinois Institute of Technology · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Al-Sadiq Mosque

    The Al Sadiq Mosque was commissioned in 1922 in the Bronzeville neighborhood in city of Chicago. The Al-Sadiq Mosque is one of America's earliest built mosques and the oldest standing mosque in the country today.

    600 m · mosque in Chicago, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Grand Boulevard

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Chicago Midway (MDW), 12 km · Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 30 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 128 km

Stations

47th, 500 m · 55th–56th–57th Street, 3.4 km

• Milwaukee → Grand Boulevard

  138 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · $12–17
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  205 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · $22–30
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  258 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · $23–31
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