Community area in Chicago, Illinois

Forest Glen

Forest Glen is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago in Illinois, United States, located on the city's Northwest Side.

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Every way there

Milwaukee → Forest Glen
1013 km · quickest by air, 8h 1m · $250–370
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Grand Rapids → Forest Glen
845 km · quickest by air, 8h 2m · $250–360
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Indianapolis → Forest Glen
786 km · quickest by air, 7h 59m · $240–350
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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.

The field note

What is in and around Forest Glen, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Forest Glen has

YScheduled flightsChicago (ORD), 13 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesOgilvie / Union (West Loop), 15 km, Chicago Water Taxi; sailings estimated
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

41.983°, -87.750°

It comprises the neighborhoods of Forest Glen, Edgebrook and Sauganash, with sub-neighborhoods of Sauganash Park, Wildwood, North Edgebrook and Old Edgebrook.

How locals move

Getting around Forest Glen the local way

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. Last edited 2026-04.

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