North Center
North Center is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located in the city's North Side.
North Center is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located in the city's North Side. North Center is bordered on the north by Montrose Avenue, on the south by Diversey Parkway, on the west by the Chicago River and on the east by Ravenswood Avenue; it includes the neighborhoods of Northcenter, Roscoe Village, St. Ben's, and Hamlin Park. The Brown Line of the Chicago 'L' has stops within the community area at Addison, Irving Park, and Montrose.
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Getting to North Center
- Airports
- Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 19 km · Chicago Midway (MDW), 19 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 112 km
- Milwaukee → North Center122 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · $11–15
- Grand Rapids → North Center200 km · quickest by road, 4h 29m · $24–32
- Indianapolis → North Center275 km · quickest by road, 4h 42m · $24–33
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for North Center
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 North Center. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inChicago Executive Airport: A second designated reliever airport, it is an increasingly popular airport for chartered flights based in Wheeling and Prospect Heights.
- Get inWaukegan Regional Airport: A third designated reliever airport, the Waukegan Regional Airport receives chartered flights.
From Wikivoyage: Chicagoland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.
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Next door to North Center
North Center is 11 km from Chicago, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.