Somonauk Park
Somonauk Park is a park in Cook, Illinois. Somonauk Park is situated nearby to the village Richton Park, as well as near Park Forest.Places of Interest
Highlights include Richton Park station and Richton Park Public Library District.
Richton Park station
Railway station
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
Richton Park is the penultimate station along the main branch of the Metra Electric line, in Richton Park, Illinois. It is located on Sauk Trail, east of Governor's Highway, and is 29.3 miles away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station.
Richton Park Public Library District
Library
The Richton Park Library District was founded in 1972 when village trustees rented a storefront at 22365 Governors Highway in Richton Park, Illinois. Volunteers had to engage in extensive cleaning and renovation in order to convert the former coffee-house into a library. Richton Park Public Library District is situated 1½ miles northwest of Somonauk Park.
University Park station
Railway station
Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 4.0.
University Park is a station on Metra's Metra Electric District line located in University Park, Illinois. University Park is the southern terminus of the Metra Electric main line and is 31.5 miles away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station. University Park station is situated 1½ miles southwest of Somonauk Park.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Richton Park and Park Forest.
Richton Park
Village
Richton Park is a village and south suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 12,775 at the 2020 census.
Park Forest
Village
Park Forest is a village and south suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States, with a small southern portion in Will County. The village was originally designed by Loebl Schlossman & Bennett as a planned community for veterans returning from World War II.
University Park
Village
University Park is a village in Will County with a small portion in Cook County in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a south suburb of Chicago. The village is one of the region's few planned communities; it was developed in the 1960s as Wood Hill, then Park Forest South, and finally University Park. University Park is situated 2½ miles south of Somonauk Park.
Somonauk Park
- Type: Park
- Description: park in the United States of America
- Category: recreation area
- Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.4728° or 41° 28′ 22″ northLongitude
-87.69756° or 87° 41′ 51″ westElevation
722 feet (220 metres)Open location code
86HJF8F2+4XOpenStreetMap ID
way 689771441OpenStreetMap feature
leisure=park
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In Other Languages
“Somonauk Park” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Somonauk Park”
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