Highwood

Worth seeing in and around Highwood

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
   2022 Highland Park parade shooting

   On July 4, 2022, a mass shooting occurred during an Independence Day parade in Highland Park, Illinois, United States. The shooting occurred at 10:14 a.m., roughly 15 minutes after the parade had started.

   2.5 km · mass shooting in Highland Park, Illinois · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Chicago Botanic Garden

   The Chicago Botanic Garden is a 385-acre botanical garden situated on nine islands in the northern Cook County Forest Preserves within the nominal geographical boundaries of Glencoe, Illinois. It features 27 display gardens and five natural habitats including Mary Mix McDonald Woods, Barbara Brown Nature Reserve, Dixon Prairie, the Skokie River Corridor, and the Lakes and Shorelines.

   6.8 km · botanical garden located in Illinois, USA · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Willits House

   The Ward W. Willits House is a historic house at 1445 Sheridan Road in Highland Park, a suburb of Chicago in Illinois, United States. Designed in 1901 by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, the Willits house is considered one of the first of the great Prairie School houses.

   3.7 km · historic house in Highland Park, Illinois · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Ben Rose House

   The Ben Rose House is a private residence designed by modernist architect A. James Speyer, a student of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. It was built in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, Illinois, in 1953.

   4.3 km · home in Highland Park, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Lake Forest High School

   Lake Forest High School is a public four-year high school located in Lake Forest, Illinois, a North Shore suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. It is the only school of Lake Forest Community High School District 115, which serves the communities of Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, Knollwood, and smaller parts of Mettawa and North Chicago.

   6.8 km · public four-year high school located in Lake Forest, Illinois · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Onwentsia Club

   Onwentsia Club is an 18-hole golf course in the central United States, located in Lake Forest, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago.

   5 km · golf course in Lake Forest, Illinois, US · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Fort Sheridan Water Tower

   The Fort Sheridan Water Tower is a water tower in Fort Sheridan, Illinois.

   1.1 km · historic United States Army base water tower · Wikipedia
8. 08
   North Shore Sanitary District Tower

   The North Shore Sanitary District Tower is located in Rosewood Park, Highland Park, Illinois. It was built in 1931 to provide ventilation for the local sewer system.

   5.5 km · water tower in Highland Park, Illinois · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Deerpath Inn

   The Deer Path Inn is a historic hotel. Originally named Deerpath Inn because of its previous location on Deerpath Road, it is now located at 255 E. Illinois Road in Lake Forest, Illinois.

   5.4 km · hotel in Lake Forest, United States of America · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Lake Forest College

    Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts college in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1857 as Lind University by a group of Presbyterian ministers, the college has been coeducational since 1876 and an undergraduate-focused liberal arts institution since 1903.

    5 km · private liberal arts college in Illinois · Wikipedia

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Getting to Highwood

Airports

Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 26 km · Chicago Midway (MDW), 47 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 83 km

Stations

Ravinia Park, 6.1 km · Braeside, 6.8 km · Ravinia station, 5.2 km · Lake Cook Road, 6.5 km

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  41 km · quickest by road, 1h · $3.5–5
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  94 km · quickest by road, 1h 53m · $8–11
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  195 km · quickest by road, 5h · $26–36
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