Racine
Racine is a city in Racine County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat.
Racine is a city in Racine County, Wisconsin, United States, and its county seat. It is located on the shore of Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Root River, 22 miles (35 km) south of Milwaukee and 60 miles (97 km) north of Chicago. It is the fifth-most populous city in Wisconsin, with a population of 77,816 at the 2020 census. The Racine metropolitan statistical area, consisting solely of Racine County, has an estimated 199,000 residents.
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Worth seeing in and around Racine
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.
- 01University of Wisconsin–Parkside
The University of Wisconsin–Parkside is a public university in Somers, Wisconsin, United States. It is part of the University of Wisconsin System and has 4,644 students, 161 full-time faculty, and 89 lecturers and part-time faculty.
9.9 km · public university in Wisconsin · Wikipedia - 02Wind Point Light
Wind Point Lighthouse is a lighthouse located at the north end of Racine Harbor in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. It is in the village of Wind Point, Wisconsin, on Lighthouse Road, next to the Shoop Park golf course.
7.2 km · lighthouse in Wisconsin, United States · Wikipedia - 03Wingspread
Wingspread is a conference center and house in Wind Point, Wisconsin, United States. Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, it was built between 1938 and 1939 for the businessman Herbert Fisk Johnson Jr., the president of S.C. Johnson.
6.7 km · historic house in Wisconsin, United States · Wikipedia - 04Racine Harbor Lighthouse and Life Saving Station
The Racine Harbor Lighthouse and Life Saving Station is a complex of navigation aids begun by the U.S. government in the 1860s near the harbor of Racine, Wisconsin. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1975.
2.4 km · lighthouse in Wisconsin, United States · Wikipedia - 05Racine Reef Light
The Racine Reef Light was a lighthouse located in Lake Michigan some two miles east of Racine, Wisconsin, marking the edge of its eponymous shallows. It was torn down in 1961 and replaced with a skeleton tower on the same foundation.
5.7 km · lighthouse in Wisconsin, United States · Wikipedia - 06Thomas P. Hardy House
The Thomas P. Hardy House is a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Prairie School home in Racine, Wisconsin, United States, that was built in 1905. The street-facing side of the house is mostly stucco, giving the residents privacy from the nearby sidewalk and street, but the expansive windows on the other side open up to Lake Michigan.
2.2 km · historic house in Wisconsin, United States · Wikipedia - 07Racine Zoo
The Racine Zoological Gardens, or Racine Zoo, is a zoo situated on 32 acres on the shore of Lake Michigan in Racine, Wisconsin. The zoo is operated by the Racine Zoological Society, a non-profit organization.
3.1 km · zoo in Wisconsin, United States · Wikipedia - 08St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church
St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church is a parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Racine, Wisconsin.
1.8 km · church in Racine, Wisconsin · Wikipedia - 09Memorial Hall
Memorial Hall is a convention and meeting hall built in 1924–25 in downtown Racine, Wisconsin. It is operated by the Racine Civic Center.
2 km · meeting hall in Racine, Wisconsin · Wikipedia - 10Racine Heritage Museum
The Racine Heritage Museum is a historical museum building and former Carnegie library, located at 701 S. Main St. in downtown Racine, Wisconsin.
1.9 km · Museum in Racine, Wisconsin · Wikipedia
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Getting to Racine
- Airports
- General Mitchell (MKE), 26 km · Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 84 km · Chicago Midway (MDW), 105 km
- Stations
- John H. Batten Airport, 3.9 km
- Chicago → Racine98 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · $10–13
- Grand Rapids → Racine174 km · quickest by road, 6h 17m · $32–44
- Indianapolis → Racine356 km · quickest by road, 6h 30m · $33–45
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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.
No local-transport research exists yet for Racine
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 Racine. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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Next door to Racine
Racine is 36 km from Milwaukee, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Southside Historic Districthistoric district in Racine, Wisconsin, United States2.1 km