West Ridge
West Ridge is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States.

West Ridge is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States. It is historically a middle-class neighborhood located on the far North Side of the City of Chicago. It is located in the 50th ward and the 40th ward.
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Worth seeing in and around West Ridge
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.
- 01Northeastern 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.
3.1 km · state university in Chicago · Wikipedia - 02Graceland 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.
5.5 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia - 03Queen of All Saints Basilica
Queen of All Saints Basilica is a historic church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago located at 6280 North Sauganash Avenue in Chicago's upper middle-class Sauganash neighborhood. Along with St.
4.6 km · church in Chicago, USA · Wikipedia - 04Lincoln 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.
3.3 km · Lincoln Square, Chicago · Wikipedia - 05Rosehill 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.
1.9 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia - 06Leather 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.
1.8 km · archives and museum of the Leather subculture · Wikipedia - 07Bohemian National Cemetery
Bohemian National Cemetery is a cemetery at 5255 North Pulaski Road in North Park, Chicago, Illinois, United States.
4 km · cemetery in Chicago · Wikipedia - 08North 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.
3.2 km · Private university in Chicago, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia - 09All 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.
4.1 km · church of the Episcopal Church of the United States in the neighborhood of Ravenswood in Chicago · Wikipedia - 10Park 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.
3.6 km · high-rise residential building in Chicago, Illinois, United States · Wikipedia
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Getting to West Ridge
- Airports
- Chicago O'Hare (ORD), 18 km · Chicago Midway (MDW), 24 km · General Mitchell (MKE), 107 km
- Stations
- Francisco, 3.9 km · Argyle, 3.9 km · Berwyn station, 3.6 km · Granville station, 2.6 km · Rockwell, 3.8 km
- Milwaukee → West Ridge117 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · $10–14
- Grand Rapids → West Ridge198 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · $24–33
- Indianapolis → West Ridge280 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · $24–34
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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 West Ridge
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 West Ridge. 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.
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Next door to West Ridge
West Ridge is 17 km from Chicago, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Uptowncommunity area of Chicago4.2 km
- Rogers Parkneighborhood in Chicago2 km
- North Centercommunity area of Chicago5.6 km
- North Parkneighborhood in Chicago, Illinois, USA5.6 km
- West Argyle Street Historic Districthistoric district in Chicago, Illinois, United States4 km
- Edgewatercommunity area in Illinois, United States2.7 km