Village in Illinois, United States

Glen Carbon

Glen Carbon is a village in Madison County, Illinois, United States, 14 miles (23 km) northeast of St.

Every way there

Chicago → Glen Carbon
398 km · quickest by air, 6h 5m · $240–350
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Indianapolis → Glen Carbon
348 km · quickest by road, 5h 19m · $29–40
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Louisville → Glen Carbon
372 km · quickest by road, 6h 5m · $33–46
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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 Glen Carbon, 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 Glen Carbon has

YScheduled flightsSt Louis (STL), 34 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 5 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
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.

38.753°, -89.981°

Louis. It is part of the St. Louis metropolitan area. The population was 13,842 at the 2020 census.

How locals move

Getting around Glen Carbon the local way

Get inLouis Downtown Airport () is 3 miles (5 km) east of the city center and serves charter and cargo flights.
Get aroundDue to how remote Calhoun County is, ferries are used to connect it to both Illinois and Missouri.
Get aroundThe Illinois Department of Transportation maintains two ferry services across the Illinois River for Brussels and Kampsville (normal bridge access is available at Hardin).

From Wikivoyage: St. Louis Metro East, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-06.

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