Ladd Arboretum
The Edward R. Ladd Arboretum is an arboretum located at 2024 McCormick Boulevard, Evanston, Illinois, occupying 23 acres in a narrow.75 miles stretch between McCormick Boulevard and the North Shore Channel on land leased from the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Central Street/Evanston station and Marywood Academy.
Central Street/Evanston station
Railway station
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Central Street/Evanston is the northernmost of the three commuter railroad stations in Evanston, Illinois. It is an elevated station at Green Bay Road and Central Street, surrounded by a neighborhood of stores, restaurants and multi-story apartment buildings.
Marywood Academy
Town hall
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Marywood Academy is a historic building located at 2100 Ridge Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. The building was built in 1900 as Visitation Academy to serve as a girls' Catholic school led by the Visitation Sisters.
Ryan Field
Photo: Greenstrat, Public domain.
Ryan Field was a football stadium in the central United States, located in Evanston, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago near the campus of Northwestern University.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Central Street and Evanston.
Central Street
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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.
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.
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.
Ladd Arboretum
- Type: Nature reserve
- Description: botanical garden
- Categories: botanical garden and recreation area
- Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.05789° or 42° 3′ 28″ northLongitude
-87.69798° or 87° 41′ 53″ westElevation
597 feet (182 metres)Operator
Evanston Parks & RecreationOpen location code
86JJ3852+5ROpenStreetMap ID
way 1463810126OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=nature_reserveGeoNames ID
4898928Wikidata ID
Q577644
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Spanish—“Ladd Arboretum” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Ladd Arboretum”
- Spanish: “Arboreto Ladd”
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