Fort Sheridan Water Tower

The Fort Sheridan Water Tower is a water tower in Fort Sheridan, Illinois.

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Type: Tower
Description: historic United States Army base water tower
Also known as: “Water Tower, Building 49”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Fort Sheridan station and Highwood station.

Fort Sheridan station

Railway station

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Fort Sheridan station is one of two stations on Metra's Union Pacific North Line located in the Fort Sheridan neighborhood in Highwood, Illinois. The station is officially located at 461 West Old Elm Road, and is 25.7 miles away from Ogilvie Transportation Center, the southern terminus of the Union Pacific North Line. Fort Sheridan station is situated 2,500 feet west of Fort Sheridan Water Tower.

Highwood station

Railway station

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Highwood is one of two stations on Metra's Union Pacific North Line located in Highwood, Illinois. Highwood is located at 317 Green Bay Road. Highwood is 24.5 miles away from Ogilvie Transportation Center, the southern terminus of the Union Pacific North Line. Highwood station is situated 1 mile south of Fort Sheridan Water Tower.

Fort Sheridan National Cemetery

Cemetery

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Fort Sheridan National Cemetery was established in 1889 on the grounds of Fort Sheridan, a United States Army installation that had been established two years earlier, in 1887, in Lake County, Illinois and remained an active U.S. Army installation until 1993. Fort Sheridan National Cemetery is situated 3,800 feet northwest of Fort Sheridan Water Tower.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fort Sheridan and Highwood.

Fort Sheridan

Hamlet

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Fort Sheridan is a residential neighborhood within the cities of Lake Forest, Highwood, and Highland Park in Lake County, Illinois, 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 Chicago.

Highwood

Village

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Highwood is a North Shore suburb of Chicago in Moraine Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States, 28 miles north of downtown Chicago. As of the 2020 census, the population was 5,074.

Highland Park

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Highland Park is a city in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Its population was 30,176 at the 2020 census. Highland Park is located on the North Shore of the Chicago metropolitan area, about 25 miles north of downtown Chicago.

Fort Sheridan Water Tower

Categories: water tower and historic site
Location: Moraine Township, Lake, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.21656° or 42° 12′ 60″ north

Longitude

-87.81198° or 87° 48′ 43″ west

Open location code

86JJ658Q+J6

OpenStreetMap ID

node 4817437871

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=yes

OpenStreetMap feature

man_made=tower

Wikidata ID

Q14687504

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