Taft Park

Taft Park is a park in Cook, Illinois. Taft Park is situated nearby to the village Phoenix, as well as near the town South Holland.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Harvey station and Hazel Crest station.

Harvey station

Railway station

Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Harvey is one of two Metra Electric commuter rail stations along the line's Main Branch in Harvey, Illinois. The station is located at Park Avenue and 154th Street, and is 20.0 miles away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station.

Hazel Crest station

Railway station

Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hazel Crest is a station on Metra's Metra Electric District located in Hazel Crest, Illinois. The station is located at Park Avenue and 170th Street, 22.3 miles from Millennium Station, the northern terminus of the Metra Electric District. Hazel Crest station is situated 1½ miles southwest of Taft Park.

147th Street/Sibley station

Railway station

Photo: Zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0.

147th Street/Sibley station is one of two Metra Electric District stations located on its Main Branch in Harvey, Illinois. The station is located on 147th Street, and Clinton Street, and is 19.0 miles away from the northern terminus at Millennium Station. 147th Street/Sibley station is situated 2 miles north of Taft Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Harvey and Phoenix.

Harvey

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY 2.0.

Harvey is a city of about 25,000 people in the South Suburbs of the Chicagoland region of Illinois.The city suffers from high levels of unemployment, poverty, and crime.

Phoenix

Village

Phoenix is a village and south suburb in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,708 at the 2020 census. It is located approximately 19 miles south of the Chicago Loop in the Chicago metropolitan area.

South Holland

Town

Photo: Dennisyerger84, CC BY-SA 3.0.

South Holland is a village and south suburb of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States, within Thornton Township. The population was 21,465 at the 2020 census. It is named after the Dutch province of South Holland.

Taft Park

Type: Park
Description: park in Cook County, Illinois, United States of America
Category: recreation area
Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.59623° or 41° 35′ 46″ north

Longitude

-87.63283° or 87° 37′ 58″ west

Elevation

600 feet (183 metres)

Named after

William Howard Taft

Open location code

86HJH9W8+FV

OpenStreetMap ID

way 360512941

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

GeoNames ID

4913171

Wikidata ID

Q49568800

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In Other Languages

“Taft Park” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Taft Park”

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