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Unincorporated community in Illinois, United States

Medinah

Medinah is an unincorporated community in the state of Illinois and is a northwest suburb of Chicago, located in DuPage County.

Medinah
Medinah · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Medinah is an unincorporated community in the state of Illinois and is a northwest suburb of Chicago, located in DuPage County. It is neighbored by the three villages of Roselle, Itasca, and Bloomingdale along old Chicago–Galena highway between Route 19 and 20.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Medinah

One place 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
    Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Chicago

    Shree Swaminarayan Temple, Chicago, IL is a Swaminarayan Hindu temple located in the Chicago suburb of Itasca. Opened in 1998, it comes under ISSO of the Nar Narayan Dev Gadi.

    500 m · Hindu temple in Illinois, United States · 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.

Go there

Getting to Medinah

Airports
Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 12 km · Chicago Midway (MDW), 33 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 108 km
  • Milwaukee → Medinah
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · $11–15
  • Grand Rapids → Medinah
    224 km · quickest by road, 4h 57m · $26–36
  • Indianapolis → Medinah
    293 km · quickest by road, 5h 6m · $26–36
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Medinah

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 Medinah. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inChicago helicopter tours are available from this airport.

From Wikivoyage: Medinah, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-03.

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

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,252 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,576 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,591 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,695 km
  5. 05
    Port Townsend and the Olympic PeninsulaUS

    9 ways of moving, 17 sources

    2,785 km

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

Around it

Next door to Medinah

Medinah is 36 km from Chicago, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.