--- title: "Pill Hill, Chicago – what is there, and how you get there | Mixroutes" description: "Pill Hill, Chicago, United States: Pill Hill is a neighborhood in the Calumet Heights community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United…" url: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/pill-hill" markdown: "https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/pill-hill.md" image: "https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Chicago_River_Morning_%2844455011711%29.jpg/1920px-Chicago_River_Morning_%2844455011711%29.jpg" --- Neighborhood in Calumet Heights, Chicago · United States # Pill Hill, Chicago Pill Hill is a neighborhood in the Calumet Heights community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. ![Pill Hill, Chicago](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Chicago_River_Morning_%2844455011711%29.jpg/1920px-Chicago_River_Morning_%2844455011711%29.jpg) Pill Hill, Chicago · Roman Boed from The Netherlands (CC BY 2.0) The place Pill Hill is a neighborhood in the Calumet Heights community area on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its name refers to the many doctors who used to live in the neighborhood. Adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pill_Hill%2C_Chicago), CC BY-SA 4.0. What is there ## Worth seeing in and around Pill Hill, Chicago 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. Chicago State University Chicago State University is a public university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1867 by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, it was established as the first teacher training school in Cook County. 3 km · university · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_State_University) 2. Mosque Maryam Mosque Maryam, also known as Muhammad Mosque #2 or Temple #2, is the headquarters of the Nation of Islam, located in Chicago, Illinois. It is at 7351 South Stony Island Avenue in the South Shore neighborhood. 3.9 km · mosque in Illinois, United States · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosque_Maryam) 3. Church of the Immaculate Conception The Church of the Immaculate Conception, referred to in Polish as Kościół Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny, is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located at 2944 East 88th Street in Chicago, Illinois. It is a prime example of the so-called 'Polish Cathedral style' of churches in both its opulence and grand scale. 2.2 km · Polish church in Chicago · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Immaculate_Conception_(Chicago%29) 4. Avalon Regal Theater The Avalon Regal Theater is a music hall located at 1641 East 79th Street, bordered by the Avalon Park and South Shore neighborhoods on the south side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. The theater opened in August 1927 and is a noted venue for African-American performers. 2.9 km · Music hall and theater in Chicago, Illinois, United States · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avalon_Regal_Theater) 5. Saint Michael the Archangel Catholic Church St. Michael is a church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. 3.1 km · church in Illinois, USA · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Michael_the_Archangel_Catholic_Church_(Chicago%29) 6. Calumet Park Calumet Park is a 198-acre urban park in Chicago, Illinois. Providing access to Lake Michigan from the East Side neighborhood on the city's Southeast Side, the park contains approximately 0.9 miles of lake frontage from 95th Street to 102nd Street, which extends to the city limits at Illinois' border with Indiana. 3.9 km · park in Illinois, United States of America, United States of America · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calumet_Park) 7. National Shrine of Saint Jude The National Shrine of Saint Jude, in Our Lady of Guadalupe Church in Chicago, Illinois, is a shrine to one of Jesus' 12 apostles and Roman Catholic saint Saint Jude. It is a place of pilgrimage for Catholics in the United States and other countries, and is part of a parish served by the Claretians, who continue to maintain the Shrine. 2.4 km · catholic shrine · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Shrine_of_Saint_Jude_(United_States%29) 8. Dinah Washington Park Dinah Washington Park is a park located at 8215 S. Euclid Avenue in the South Chicago community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was named for singer and Chicago resident Dinah Washington. 2.2 km · Public City Park in the Chicago Park District · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinah_Washington_Park) 9. Bessemer Park Bessemer Park is a public park in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Created in 1904, it was named for Henry Bessemer, the inventor of the eponymous steelmaking process. 1.7 km · park in Illinois, United States of America, United States of America · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_Park) 10. Bronzeville Children's Museum Bronzeville Children's Museum is a museum in the Calumet Heights community area of the South Side of Chicago. It is the first and only African American children's museum in the United States. 800 m · African American children's museum in Evergreen Park, IL · [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronzeville_Children%27s_Museum) 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 Pill Hill, Chicago **Airports:** Chicago Midway (MDW), 16 km · Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 39 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 138 km\ **Stations:** 79th Street (Chatham), 3.3 km · 83rd Street (Avalon Park), 2.8 km · South Chicago (93rd Street), 2.3 km · 95th Street/Chicago State University, 2.4 km · 87th Street (Woodruff), 2.4 km\ - Milwaukee → Pill Hill, Chicago 148 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · $13–18 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/milwaukee-to-pill-hill-chicago) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Milwaukee&to=Pill+Hill%2C+Chicago) - Grand Rapids → Pill Hill, Chicago 208 km · quickest by road, 3h 19m · $21–29 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/grand-rapids-to-pill-hill-chicago) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Grand+Rapids&to=Pill+Hill%2C+Chicago) - Indianapolis → Pill Hill, Chicago 248 km · quickest by road, 3h 30m · $22–30 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/indianapolis-to-pill-hill-chicago) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Indianapolis&to=Pill+Hill%2C+Chicago) - From anywhere The planner compares every way there from wherever you are. [Plan a trip](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Pill%20Hill%2C%20Chicago) 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 Pill Hill, Chicago 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 Pill Hill, Chicago. 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. [Fire Island](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/fire-island) US 10 ways of moving, 19 sources 1,212 km 2. [Vinalhaven and the Fox Islands](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vinalhaven) US 9 ways of moving, 13 sources 1,545 km 3. [Bacalar](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/bacalar) MX 9 ways of moving, 41 sources 2,564 km 4. [Caye Caulker](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/caye-caulker) BZ 9 ways of moving, 42 sources 2,667 km 5. [Flores](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/flores) GT 9 ways of moving, 32 sources 2,766 km If you know how people move in Pill Hill, Chicago – the stand, the rule, the fare – [tell us](https://www.mixroutes.com/report?key=blog%7Cpill-hill&title=Pill+Hill%2C+Chicago&sub=Field+notes&back=%2Fnotes%2Fpill-hill), and the note gets an entry. Around it ## Next door to Pill Hill, Chicago Pill Hill, Chicago is 15 km from [Chicago](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chicago), the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture. - [Calumet Heights](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/calumet-heights) community area in Chicago, Illinois, United States 400 m - [Avalon Park](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/avalon-park) community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States of America 2.9 km - [South Shore](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/south-shore) community in Chicago 3.8 km - [Muhammad University of Islam](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/muhammad-university-of-islam) Nation of Islam-affiliated preschool to 12th Grade school in the South Shore area of Chicago, Illinois, United States 4 km - [Chatham](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/chatham) neighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, USA 3.4 km - [South Chicago](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/south-chicago) community area in Chicago, Illinois 2.6 km [The place page for Pill Hill, Chicago](https://www.mixroutes.com/places/pill-hill) [All the notes](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes) [Every note on United States](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes#c-US) --- This is the markdown version of https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/pill-hill, for search crawlers and AI assistants. 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