Carol Shields

Carol Shields is a memorial in Oak Park Township, Cook, Illinois. Carol Shields is situated nearby to Oak Park Public Library, as well as near the theater building Scoville Park Outdoor Stage.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Unity Temple and Scoville Park.

Unity Temple

Place of worship

Photo: IvoShandor, CC BY 2.5.

Unity Temple is a Unitarian Universalist church building that houses the Unity Temple Unitarian Universalist Congregation at 875 Lake Street in Oak Park, Illinois, United States. Unity Temple is situated 360 feet southwest of Carol Shields.

Scoville Park

Park

Photo: Teemu008, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Scoville Park is a public park in Oak Park, Illinois. Designed by the Danish-American landscape architect Jens Jensen, the park is located at the corner of Lake Street and Oak Park Avenue in the town's central Hemingway District, next to the Oak Park Public Library.

Oak Park Public Library

Library

Photo: zol87, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Oak Park Public Library is the public library system serving the village of Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb just west of Chicago. Founded as a public library in 1903, the library has three locations offering books, magazines, movies, music, computer access, and programs for all ages.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Oak Park and River Forest.

Oak Park

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Oak Park is a city of 52,000 people in the Chicagoland area. It's essentially an outdoor museum dedicated to architect Frank Lloyd Wright.

River Forest

Village

River Forest is a suburban village adjacent to Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 11,717. Two universities make their home in River Forest, Dominican University and Concordia University Chicago.

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.

Carol Shields

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “Author Carol Shields 1935 - Oak Park 2003 - Canada”
Category: historic site
Location: Oak Park Township, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.88906° or 41° 53′ 21″ north

Longitude

-87.79594° or 87° 47′ 45″ west

Open location code

86HJV6Q3+JJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 5896461175

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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