Illinois
Lake
Moraine Township

Fort Sheridan

Fort Sheridan is a residential neighborhood within the cities of , , and in , , United States. It was originally established as Fort Sheridan, an Army post named after Civil War cavalry general Philip Sheridan, to honor his services to .
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  • Type: Hamlet
  • Description: neighborhood in Lake County, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “Fort Sheridan, IL” and “Fort Sheridan, Illinois”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Fort Sheridan station and Fort Sheridan Water Tower.

Railway station
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is one of two stations on 's Union Pacific North Line located in the Fort Sheridan neighborhood in . The station is officially located at 461 West Old Elm Road, and is 25.7 miles away from , the southern terminus of the Union Pacific North Line.

Tower
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The is a water tower in Fort Sheridan, .

Railway station
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Highwood is one of two stations on 's Union Pacific North Line located in . Highwood is located at 317 Green Bay Road. Highwood is 24.5 miles away from , the southern terminus of the Union Pacific North Line.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Highwood and Highland Park.

Village
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is a suburb of Chicago in Moraine Township, Lake County, Illinois, . As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,074.

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is a suburban city located in southeastern , United States, about 25 miles north of downtown . Per the 2020 census, the population was 30,176.

Village
is a village in West Deerfield and Vernon townships in , United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 1,013. is situated 3 miles southwest of Fort Sheridan.

Fort Sheridan

Latitude
42.21392° or 42° 12′ 50″ north
Longitude
-87.81277° or 87° 48′ 46″ west
Elevation
689 feet (210 metres)
Named after
Philip Sheridan
IATA airport code
FSN
United Nations Location Code
US FSN
Open location code
86JJ657P+HV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 11396152169
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­hamlet
Geo­Names ID
11239118
Wiki­data ID
Q1172945
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In Other Languages

From Belarusian to Ukrainian—“Fort Sheridan” goes by many names.
  • Belarusian: “Форт Шэрыдан”
  • Catalan: “Fort Sheridan, Illinois”
  • Catalan: “Fort Sheridan”
  • Chinese: “謝里丹堡”
  • Chinese: “謝里登堡 (伊利諾伊州)”
  • Chinese: “謝里登堡”
  • Chinese: “谢里丹堡”
  • Czech: “Fort Sheridan”
  • Danish: “Fort Sheridan”
  • Dutch: “Fort Sheridan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فورت شيريدان”
  • Esperanto: “Fort Sheridan”
  • French: “Fort Sheridan”
  • Galician: “Fort Sheridan”
  • Hebrew: “פורט שרידאן”
  • Irish: “Fort Sheridan”
  • Italian: “Camp Highwood”
  • Italian: “Fort Sheridan”
  • Japanese: “フォート・シェリダン”
  • Persian: “فورت شریدان، ایلینوی”
  • Persian: “فورت شریدان”
  • Silesian: “Fort Sheridan”
  • South Azerbaijani: “فورت شریدان، ایلینوی”
  • Swedish: “Fort Sheridan”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт Шерідан”
  • Ukrainian: “Форт-Шерідан”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Fort Sheridan”. Photo: Teemu008, CC BY-SA 2.0.