Gross Point

Gross Point is a neighborhood in New Trier Township, Cook, Illinois. Gross Point is situated nearby to the neighborhood Central Street, as well as near the village Kenilworth.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gross Point Village Hall and Centennial Park.

Gross Point Village Hall

Museum

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The Gross Point Village Hall, located at 609 Ridge Road in Wilmette, Illinois, was the village hall of the defunct village of Gross Point, Illinois. The village of Gross Point, named for a French description of a turn in nearby Lake Michigan's shoreline, was settled from the 1830s onward and incorporated in 1874.

Centennial Park

Park

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Walter S Lovelace Park

Park

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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wilmette and Central Street.

Wilmette

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Wilmette is 16 miles north of Chicago. It is part of the affluent corridor of lakefront Chicago suburbs known as the North Shore. It is the location of the world's oldest still-standing Bahá'í House of Worship.

Central Street

Neighborhood

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Central Street is the principal east-west artery in the far north of Evanston, Illinois and is a major thoroughfare in other northern and northwest suburbs of Chicago.

Kenilworth

Village

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Kenilworth is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, 15 miles north of downtown Chicago. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 2,514.

Gross Point

Type: Neighborhood
Category: locality
Location: New Trier Township, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.07629° or 42° 4′ 35″ north

Longitude

-87.73088° or 87° 43′ 51″ west

Elevation

630 feet (192 metres)

Open location code

86JJ37G9+GM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3272474298

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

GeoNames ID

4894793

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