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Consistently ranked as one of the best places to live in the country, the city of 145,000 residents is about 30 miles west of downtown Chicago has a lot to offer beyond its access to multiple ...
Oak Street Beach, located at 1000 North, [9] covers the area from the North Avenue 'Hook' Pier south to Ohio Street Beach (Illinois St. Beach, Olive Beach), about 1.5 mi (2 km). Oak Street is home to the largest area of deep water swimming in the city (1/2 mile (800 m) over 10 ft (3 m)).
Edgewater is a lakefront community area on the North Side of the city of Chicago, Illinois six miles north of the Loop.The most recently established of the city's 77 official community areas, Edgewater is bounded by Foster Avenue on the south, Devon Avenue on the north, Ravenswood Avenue on the west, and Lake Michigan on the east. [2]
Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [2] One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore ...
The only Illinois community on Money magazine's 50 Best Places to Live of 2024 is a conservation community about 40 miles north of Chicago.
Oak Lawn. Average rent: $1,858 Average total monthly cost of living: $3,433 Livability score: 78 The village of Oak Lawn is a popular spot for retirees, with 18% of its 58,000 residents aged 65 or ...
Kenilworth is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, 15 miles (24 km) north of downtown Chicago.As of the 2020 census it had a population of 2,514. It is the newest of the nine suburban North Shore communities bordering Lake Michigan, and is one of those developed as a planned community.
Libertyville Township is a township in Lake County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 53,139. [2] The village of Libertyville is part of the township, as are parts of Green Oaks, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Mettawa, Mundelein, North Chicago, Rondout, Vernon Hills and Waukegan.