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Prairie View is an unincorporated community located in northeastern Illinois, in southern Lake County. It is a part of Vernon Township (the Vernon Township building was previously located in Prairie View for many years). Prairie View has not been annexed entirely by either Lincolnshire or Buffalo Grove, although tiny portions of it have been.
The station is 34.4 miles (55.4 km) away from Chicago Union Station, the southern terminus of the line. [3] [unreliable source?] In Metra's zone-based fare system, Prairie View is in zone 4. [4] As of 2018, Prairie View is the 113th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 415 weekday boardings. [2] [5]
United States historic place Prairie Avenue District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district Chicago Landmark The John J. Glessner House by Henry Hobson Richardson is located within the Prairie Avenue District. Show map of Chicago metropolitan area Show map of Illinois Location Chicago, Illinois Coordinates Built 1836–1892 Architect Henry Hobson Richardson ...
Prairie Avenue was the most posh Chicago address by the time of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. [11] 1871 Map of Chicago: The shaded area was destroyed by the Great Chicago Fire. Many of South Michigan Avenue's elegant villas were destroyed in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. [13]
Chicago is also divided into 77 community areas which were drawn by University of Chicago researchers in the late 1920s. [3] Chicago's community areas are well-defined, generally contain multiple neighborhoods, and depending on the neighborhood, less commonly used by residents. [2] [4]
Lincolnshire-Prairie View School District 103 is an elementary district located in Lincolnshire Lake County, Illinois, in suburban Chicago.The school district serves approximately 1,800 students from the communities of Lincolnshire and Prairie View and portions of Buffalo Grove, Vernon Hills, Mettawa, Riverwoods, and Lake Forest.
Mercy Hospital building located on 2537 S. Prairie Avenue (1910) The Sisters of Mercy came from Ireland to the United States in the 1840s; six came to Chicago in 1846, establishing first a high school and then in 1852 a hospital at Rush Street and the Chicago River. [2] It was the first chartered facility in Chicago.
Part of Chicago's Near North Side community area, it is roughly bounded by North Avenue, Lake Shore Drive, Oak Street, and Clark Street. The Gold Coast neighborhood grew in the wake of the Great Chicago Fire. In 1882, millionaire Potter Palmer moved to the area from the Prairie Avenue neighborhood on the city's