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West Ridge

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

West Ridge
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The place

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.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

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.

  1. 01
    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.

    3.1 km · state university in Chicago · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    5.5 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Queen 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
  4. 04
    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.

    3.3 km · Lincoln Square, Chicago · 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.

    1.9 km · cemetery in Chicago, Illinois · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    1.8 km · archives and museum of the Leather subculture · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Bohemian 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
  8. 08
    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.

    3.2 km · Private university in Chicago, Illinois, United States · 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.

    4.1 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.

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

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 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 Ridge
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · $10–14
  • Grand Rapids → West Ridge
    198 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · $24–33
  • Indianapolis → West Ridge
    280 km · quickest by road, 4h 49m · $24–34
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

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.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

From Wikivoyage: Chicagoland, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Fire IslandUS

    10 ways of moving, 18 sources

    1,222 km
  2. 02
    Vinalhaven and the Fox IslandsUS

    9 ways of moving, 13 sources

    1,546 km
  3. 03
    BacalarMX

    9 ways of moving, 41 sources

    2,594 km
  4. 04
    Caye CaulkerBZ

    9 ways of moving, 42 sources

    2,697 km
  5. 05
    FloresGT

    9 ways of moving, 32 sources

    2,795 km

If you know how people move in West Ridge – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to West Ridge

West Ridge is 17 km from Chicago, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.