Burnham Shores Park
Burnham Shores Park is a park in Cook, Illinois. Burnham Shores Park is situated nearby to the neighborhood Evanston Lakeshore Historic District, as well as near South Evanston.Places of Interest
Highlights include Main Street/Evanston station and J. Seymour Currey Park.
Main Street/Evanston station
Railway station
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Main Street/Evanston is the southernmost of the three commuter railroad stations in Evanston, Illinois. It is served by Metra's Union Pacific North Line trains, which go south to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Charles G. Dawes House
House
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The Charles Gates Dawes House is a historic house museum at 225 Greenwood Street in Evanston, Illinois. Built in 1894, this Chateauesque lakefront mansion was from 1909 until his death the home of Charles Gates Dawes and his family.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Evanston Lakeshore Historic District and Evanston.
Evanston Lakeshore Historic District
Neighborhood
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The Evanston Lakeshore Historic District is a residential historic district in Evanston, Illinois. The district encompasses a section of southeast Evanston that was developed in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Evanston
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Evanston is a city in the North Shore region of Illinois along the shores of Lake Michigan. Evanston has many identities: college town, dining destination, cultural center and gateway to the wealthy North Shore, although the city itself is anything but homogeneous in regards to economic status, culture and race.
Rogers Park
Photo: Jdsteakley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rogers Park is the northern border of Chicago — the wild-eyed inheritor of uninhibited lakefront, swamps become beaches, and the beauty of Chicago bricks.
Burnham Shores Park
- Type: Park
- Description: park in the United States of America
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.04019° or 42° 2′ 25″ northLongitude
-87.66984° or 87° 40′ 11″ westElevation
574 feet (175 metres)Operator
Evanston Parks & RecreationNamed after
Daniel BurnhamOpen location code
86JJ28RJ+33OpenStreetMap ID
way 183224162OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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In Other Languages
“Burnham Shores Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Burnham Shores Park”
Localities in the Area
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