Mount Trashmore
Mount Trashmore is a 65 ft. hill located in Robert E. James Park in Evanston, Illinois. Mount Trashmore is an example of landfill restoration as it was a solid waste landfill that was closed and converted into a park in 1965.Places of Interest
Highlights include Main Street/Evanston station and Lincolnwood Town Center.
Main Street/Evanston station
Railway station
Main Street/Evanston is the southernmost of the three commuter railroad stations in Evanston, Illinois. It is served by Metra's Union Pacific North Line trains, which go south to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Lincolnwood Town Center
Shopping center
Lincolnwood Town Center was a shopping mall located in Lincolnwood, Illinois. The mall opened in March 1990. It featured three anchor stores at its peak: Carson's and Kohl's.
Presence Saint Francis Hospital
Hospital
Saint Francis Hospital is a hospital in Evanston, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. Its facilities include a Level 1 Trauma and Heart Center, and it has 270 general acute care beds.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Evanston and Rogers Park.
Evanston
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.Rogers Park
Rogers Park is the northern border of Chicago — the wild-eyed inheritor of uninhibited lakefront, swamps become beaches, and the beauty of Chicago bricks.Skokie
The village of Skokie is a suburb in the Chicagoland area about 15 miles north of Chicago's downtown Loop. The name Skokie comes from a Potawatomi word for 'marsh'.Mount Trashmore
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 669 feet
- Description: hill park built on a landfill in Evanston, Illinois
- Categories: hill, park, and landform
- Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.0234° or 42° 1′ 24″ north
Longitude
-87.7056° or 87° 42′ 20″ west
Elevation
669 feet (204 metres)
Open location code
86JJ27FV+9Q
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
Wikidata ID
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