Miller Meadow-South Grove #1

Miller Meadow-South Grove #1 is a picnic site in Proviso Township, Cook, Illinois. Miller Meadow-South Grove #1 is situated near the school Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy, as well as near the nature reserve Miller Meadow North.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy and Forest Home Cemetery.

Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy

School

Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy is a selective enrollment high school in Forest Park, Illinois, United States that opened to 126 freshmen in 2005. Proviso Mathematics and Science Academy is situated 570 feet north of Miller Meadow-South Grove #1.

Forest Home Cemetery

Cemetery

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Forest Home Cemetery is a cemetery located at 863 S. Des Plaines Ave, Forest Park, Illinois, United States. Located adjacent to the Eisenhower Expressway, it straddles the Des Plaines River in Cook County, just west of Chicago. Forest Home Cemetery is situated 3,700 feet northeast of Miller Meadow-South Grove #1.

Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument

Memorial

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The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument is a funeral monument and sculpture located at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Dedicated in 1893, it commemorates the defendants involved in labor unrest who were blamed, convicted, and executed for the still unsolved bombing during the Haymarket affair. Haymarket Martyrs’ Monument is situated 4,000 feet northeast of Miller Meadow-South Grove #1.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Broadview and Maywood.

Broadview

Village

Broadview is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, 12 miles west of downtown Chicago. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 7,998.

Maywood

Town

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Maywood is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, in the Chicago metropolitan area. It was founded on April 6, 1869, and organized October 22, 1881. The population was 23,512 at the 2020 census.

Forest Park

Village

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Forest Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, and a suburb of Chicago. The population was 14,339 at the 2020 census. The Forest Park terminal on the CTA Blue Line is the line's western terminus, located on the Eisenhower Expressway at Des Plaines Avenue.

Miller Meadow-South Grove #1

Type: Picnic site
Category: tourism
Location: Proviso Township, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.86374° or 41° 51′ 50″ north

Longitude

-87.83201° or 87° 49′ 55″ west

Operator

Forest Preserve District of Cook County

Open location code

86HJV579+F5

OpenStreetMap ID

node 3854982071

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=picnic_site

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: Miller Meadow North and Riveredge Hospital.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Roosevelt & 1st Avenue and Miller Meadow-South Grove #2.

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