Romeoville Prairie County Forest Preserve

Romeoville Prairie County Forest Preserve is a nature reserve in Cook, Illinois. Romeoville Prairie County Forest Preserve is situated nearby to the locality Welco Corners, as well as near the hamlet Hastings.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lemont station and Lemont Refinery.

Lemont station

Railway station

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Lemont station is a station on Metra's Heritage Corridor in Lemont, Illinois. The station is 25.3 miles away from Union Station, the northern terminus of the line.

Lemont Refinery

Factory

Lemont Refinery is an oil refinery in Romeoville, Illinois owned and operated by CITGO Petroleum Corporation. Originally constructed in the early 1920s, it acquired a nearby refinery as Pure Oil and then it significantly expanded the refinery between 1968 through 1970 by its then owner Union Oil.

Romeoville station

Railway station

Photo: MidwestRailFanner, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Romeoville is a station on Metra's Heritage Corridor at the intersection of 135th Street and New Avenue in Romeoville, Illinois. As of 2018, Romeoville is the 170th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 148 weekday boardings.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lemont and Romeoville.

Lemont

Photo: Ryanmcv, Public domain.

Lemont is a village in the Chicagoland region of Illinois, a state in the Midwest of the United States of America.

Romeoville

Town

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Romeoville is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States. The village is located 26 mi southwest of Chicago on the Gateway Wetlands, directly west of the Des Plaines River and Historic U.S. Route 66.

Bolingbrook

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Bolingbrook is a village in Will and DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a southwest suburb of Chicago on I-55 and Historic Route 66. The village was a new town built on the Gateway Wetlands west of the Des Plaines River in the 1960s.

Romeoville Prairie County Forest Preserve

Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.65985° or 41° 39′ 35″ north

Longitude

-88.0338° or 88° 2′ 2″ west

Elevation

597 feet (182 metres)

Operator

Forest Preserve District of Will County

Open location code

86HHMX58+WF

OpenStreetMap ID

way 440110565

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

GeoNames ID

4908072

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Satellite Map

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Localities in the Area

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