Uptown

Worth seeing in and around Uptown

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
   Wrigley Field

   Wrigley Field is a ballpark on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is the home ballpark of Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs, one of the city's two MLB franchises.

   2 km · baseball stadium in Chicago, Illinois, USA; home venue of the Chicago Cubs · Wikipedia
2. 02
   DePaul University

   DePaul University is a private Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Founded by the Vincentians in 1898, the university takes its name from the 17th-century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul.

   4.7 km · private Catholic university in Chicago, Illinois, USA · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Lincoln Park

   Lincoln Park is a 1,208-acre park along Lake Michigan on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois. Named after US president Abraham Lincoln, it is the city's largest public park and stretches for seven miles from Grand Avenue, on the south, to near Ardmore Avenue on the north, just north of the DuSable Lake Shore Drive terminus at Hollywood Avenue.

   3.2 km · large park along the lakefront of Chicago, Illinois' North Side · Wikipedia
4. 04
   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.

   5.6 km · state university in Chicago · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Graceland Cemetery

   Graceland Cemetery is a large historic garden cemetery located in the north side community area of Uptown, in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Established in 1860, its main entrance is at the intersection of Clark Street and Irving Park Road.

   1.5 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Lincoln Park Zoo

   Lincoln Park Zoo, also known as Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens, is a 35-acre zoo in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois. The zoo was founded in 1868 and is one of the oldest zoos in the United States.

   5.2 km · zoo located in Lincoln Park in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia
7. 07
   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.

   3.1 km · Lincoln Square, Chicago · Wikipedia
8. 08
   St. Mary of the Angels in Chicago

   Saint Mary of the Angels is a historic church of Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. Located at 1850 North Hermitage Avenue in Chicago's Bucktown neighborhood, it is an example of the Polish Cathedral style of churches.

   5.8 km · church in Illinois, United States · Wikipedia
9. 09
   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.

   3.9 km · archives and museum of the Leather subculture · Wikipedia
10. 10
    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.

    3 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia

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Getting to Uptown

Airports

Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 21 km · Chicago Midway (MDW), 22 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 111 km

Stations

Wellington station, 3.3 km · Addison station, 2.1 km · Addison, 2.8 km · Southport, 2.6 km · Francisco, 4.1 km

• Milwaukee → Uptown

  121 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · $11–15
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• Grand Rapids → Uptown

  197 km · quickest by road, 4h 32m · $24–33
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• Indianapolis → Uptown

  275 km · quickest by road, 4h 45m · $24–33
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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 Uptown. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

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