Lyons

Worth seeing in and around Lyons

7 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
   Chicago Portage National Historic Site

   The Chicago Portage National Historic Site is a National Historic Site commemorating the importance of the Chicago Portage in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois, United States. It is located in Chicago Portage Forest Preserve and the Ottawa Trail Woods Forest Preserve, at the junction of Portage Creek with the Des Plaines River, on the west side of Harlem Avenue on the line of 48th Street.

   1.3 km · historic site in Lyons, Illinois · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Berwyn State Bank Building

   The Berwyn State Bank Building is an Art Deco office building at 6804 Windsor Avenue, Berwyn, Illinois. It was designed by Charles O. Liska and was built at a cost of $400,000 in 1929.

   3 km · building in Berwyn, Illinois · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Arthur J. Dunham House

   The Arthur J. Dunham House is a house located at 3131 S. Wisconsin Ave. in Berwyn, Illinois, USA. The Prairie School house, built circa 1907, was designed by the Chicago architectural firm Tallmadge and Watson.

   2.8 km · historic house in Berwyn, Illinois · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Mr. Robert Silhan House

   The Mr. Robert Silhan House is a small-scale Streamline Moderne house in Berwyn, Illinois, United States.

   3.3 km · historic house in Illinois, United States · Wikipedia
5. 05
   F. F. Tomek House

   The F. F. Tomek House, also known as The Ship House or as the Ferdinand Frederick and Emily Tomek House, is a historic house in Riverside, Illinois. It is a prominent example of Prairie School design by Frank Lloyd Wright.

   2.1 km · historic house in Illinois, United States · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Berwyn Apartments

   The Berwyn Apartments is an apartment building at 3137 Oak Park Avenue, Berwyn, Illinois. Originally the Berwyn Hotel, the building was built in 1922, at a cost of $200,000.

   3.2 km · building in Berwyn, Illinois · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Arcade Building

   The Arcade Building is a historic building at 1 Riverside Road in Riverside, Illinois. The building was built in 1871 as Riverside's first commercial building; its first floor housed storefronts, while its upper floors were used as residential and office space.

   1.5 km · historic building in Riverside, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Lyons

Airports

Chicago Midway (MDW), 6 km · Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 20 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 126 km

Stations

Berwyn, 3 km · Congress Park, 3.3 km · Harlem Avenue, 2.4 km · Hollywood, 1.8 km · La Vergne, 3.8 km

• Milwaukee → Lyons

  136 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · $12–17
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• Grand Rapids → Lyons

  59 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · $6–9
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• Indianapolis → Lyons

  267 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · $24–33
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