Rogers Park

Worth seeing in and around Rogers Park

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. 01
   Northwestern University

   Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851, it is the oldest chartered university in Illinois.

   5.2 km · private university in Evanston, Illinois, U.S. · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Northeastern Illinois University

   Northeastern Illinois 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.

   5.1 km · state university in Chicago · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Lincoln Square

   Lincoln Square is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the North Side of Chicago. It encompasses the smaller neighborhoods of Ravenswood, Ravenswood Gardens, Bowmanville, Budlong Woods, as well as Lincoln Square itself.

   4.7 km · Lincoln Square, Chicago · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Leather Archives and Museum

   The Leather Archives & Museum is a community archives, library, and museum located in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Founded by Chuck Renslow and Tony DeBlase in 1991, its mission is making “leather, kink, BDSM, and fetish accessible through research, preservation, education and community engagement." Renslow and DeBlase founded the museum to combat the loss and suppression of leather and fetish community history during the AIDS crisis.

   1.3 km · archives and museum of the Leather subculture · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Rosehill Cemetery

   Rosehill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois in the United States. At 350 acres, it is the largest cemetery in the city of Chicago and its first private cemetery.

   2.7 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia
6. 06
   North Park University

   North Park University is a private Christian university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was founded in 1891 by the Evangelical Covenant Church.

   5.1 km · Private university in Chicago, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Bohemian National Cemetery

   Bohemian National Cemetery is a cemetery at 5255 North Pulaski Road in North Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States.

   6 km · cemetery in Chicago · Wikipedia
8. 08
   North Shore Channel

   The North Shore Channel is a 7.7 mile long canal built between 1907 and 1910 to increase the flow of North Branch of the Chicago River so that it would empty into the South Branch and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. Its water is generally taken from Lake Michigan to flow into the canal at Wilmette Harbor.

   4.8 km · canal in Illinois, United States of America · Wikipedia
9. 09
   All Saints Episcopal Church

   All Saints Episcopal Church is a church of the Episcopal Church of the United States at 4550 North Hermitage Avenue in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Built in 1883, the structure was declared a Chicago Landmark in 1982.

   5 km · church of the Episcopal Church of the United States in the neighborhood of Ravenswood in Chicago · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Park Tower Condominiums

    Park Tower is a high-rise residential building in the Edgewater community area on the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the largest all-residential buildings in Chicago and the second-tallest building in Illinois outside of downtown Chicago.

    3.5 km · high-rise residential building in Chicago, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia

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Getting to Rogers Park

Airports

Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 20 km · Chicago Midway (MDW), 26 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 106 km

Stations

Francisco, 5.6 km · Argyle, 4.2 km · Granville station, 2 km · Berwyn station, 3.7 km · Foster, 5 km

• Milwaukee → Rogers Park

  116 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · $10–14
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• Grand Rapids → Rogers Park

  195 km · quickest by road, 4h 39m · $24–33
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• Indianapolis → Rogers Park

  280 km · quickest by road, 4h 52m · $25–34
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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 Rogers Park. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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