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A 1.6-mile (2.6 km) asphalt bike path runs to the west of the lagoons between Willow Road and Tower Road, and a 4.2-mile (6.8 km) loop encircles the lagoons between Tower Road and Dundee Road. This extends the 20-mile (32 km) North Branch Bicycle Trail to the Chicago Botanic Gardens.
Des Plaines Methodist Camp Ground is a historic Methodist church camp at 1250 Campground Road in Des Plaines, Illinois, USA.. The annual camp meeting was established in 1860 by a group of Methodist ministers and businessmen, including the future war hero and Illinois Governor John L. Beveridge, on the scenic land of Squire Socrates Rand along the Des Plaines River.
The Skydive Chicago Airport is identified as 8N2 and covers an area of 200 acres at an elevation of 616 feet (188m) above mean sea level and has one paved and 2 grass runways. Runway 3/21 has a 4,522 x 50 ft (1,378 x 15 m) treated asphalt pavement.
U.S. Route 20 (US 20) in the state of Illinois runs northwest to southeast in the northern end of the state. It crosses the Mississippi River into East Dubuque and exits Chicago south of the Chicago Skyway; the highway is 233.93 miles (376.47 km) long. [1]
Chicago Loop: 24.5 acres (9.9 ha) Chicago's newest marquee park, opened in 2004, just north of the Art Institute of Chicago in Grant Park, operated by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Washington Park: Washington Park: 346 acres (140 ha) Located on the south side; the proposed location for the 2016 Summer Olympics Stadium
The Chicago Park District manages 220 facilities in 570 parks covering more than 7,600 acres (3,100 ha) of land throughout the city. [7] This extensive network of parks also includes nine lakefront harbors over 24 miles (39 km) of lakefront, rendering the Chicago Park District the nation's largest municipal harbor system, along with 31 beaches, 17 historic lagoons, 86 pools, 90 playgrounds, 90 ...
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Union Park is a municipal park in Chicago, Illinois, comprising 13.46 acres (5.45 ha). [1]Located in the Near West Side, the park is just south of Ashland/Lake station on the Green and Pink lines of the Chicago 'L', bordered by North Ashland Avenue on the west, West Lake Street on the north, the diagonal North Ogden Avenue along most of the east border, and West Washington Boulevard on the south.