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Mount Greenwood

Mount Greenwood is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago.

The place

Mount Greenwood is one of the 77 community areas in Chicago. The 74th numbered area, it is about 14 miles (23 km) southwest of the Loop. It is surrounded by the neighborhoods of Beverly and Morgan Park to the east, the suburb of Evergreen Park to the north, the suburb of Oak Lawn to the west, and the suburbs of Merrionette Park and Alsip to the south. Mount Greenwood is known as the home of many Chicago firefighters, Chicago police officers, and union workers.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Mount Greenwood

3 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
    Mount Olivet Cemetery

    Mount Olivet Cemetery is a Roman Catholic cemetery located in Chicago, Illinois. The cemetery is operated by the Archdiocese of Chicago.

    2 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Saint Xavier University

    Saint Xavier University is a private Catholic university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1846 by the Sisters of Mercy, the university enrolls 3,749 students.

    1 km · private Roman Catholic university in Chicago, Illinois, US · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Beverly Unitarian Church

    Beverly Unitarian Church is a Unitarian Universalist church in Chicago, Illinois.

    3.3 km · church building in Chicago, United States of America · 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 Mount Greenwood

Airports
Chicago Midway (MDW), 10 km · Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 35 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 140 km
Stations
107th Street (Beverly Hills), 3.4 km · 111th Street (Morgan Park), 3.4 km · 115th Street (Morgan Park), 3.6 km · 103rd Street (Beverly Hills), 3.5 km · 99th Street (Beverly Hills), 3.9 km
  • Milwaukee → Mount Greenwood
    150 km · quickest by road, 2h 50m · $14–19
  • Grand Rapids → Mount Greenwood
    219 km · quickest by road, 4h 13m · $22–30
  • Indianapolis → Mount Greenwood
    251 km · quickest by road, 4h 24m · $23–31
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Mount Greenwood

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,223 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,557 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,561 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,664 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,762 km

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

Around it

Next door to Mount Greenwood

Mount Greenwood is 17 km from Chicago, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.