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.Photo: Nick Number, CC BY 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Main Street/Evanston station and Kollel.
Main Street/Evanston station
Railway station
Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.
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.
Kollel
Synagogue
A kollel is an institute for full-time, advanced study of the Talmud and rabbinic literature. Like a yeshiva, a kollel features shiurim and learning sedarim; unlike most yeshivot, the student body of a kollel typically consists mostly of married men.
Lincolnwood Town Center
Shopping center
Photo: Europopboi, CC0.
Lincolnwood Town Center is a shopping mall located in Lincolnwood, Illinois. Opened in 1990, the mall's anchor stores are Kohl's and Old Navy. The mall is owned by Prairie Ridge Development and Xroads Real Estate Advisors.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Evanston and Rogers Park.
Evanston
Photo: Madcoverboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Jdsteakley, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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
Photo: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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″ northLongitude
-87.7056° or 87° 42′ 20″ westElevation
669 feet (204 metres)Open location code
86JJ27FV+9QOpenStreetMap ID
node 3402892371OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peakWikidata ID
Q6924180
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