Welcome to Chicago, Illinois
Welcome to Chicago, Illinois is in Lake County, Northwestern Indiana, Indiana. Welcome to Chicago, Illinois is situated nearby to the obelisk Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker, as well as near State Line Plaza.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker and State Line Generating Plant.
Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker
Obelisk
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The Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker is a limestone obelisk that commemorates the establishment of the border between Illinois and Indiana. Constructed by the Office of the United States Surveyor General in 1838, its current location near the… Illinois–Indiana State Line Boundary Marker is situated 1,700 feet north of Welcome to Chicago, Illinois.
State Line Generating Plant
Building
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The State Line Generating Plant was a coal-fired electrical generating station that operated from 1929 until 2012. It was located on the coast of Lake Michigan, bordering the state line separating Indiana from Illinois but within the corporate limits of Hammond, Indiana. State Line Generating Plant is situated 1,800 feet north of Welcome to Chicago, Illinois.
Calumet Park
Park
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Calumet Park is a 198-acre urban park in Chicago, Illinois. Providing access to Lake Michigan from the East Side neighborhood on the city's Southeast Side, the park contains approximately 0.9 miles of lake frontage from 95th Street to 102nd Street, which extends to the city limits at Illinois' border with Indiana.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include East Side and Robertsdale.
East Side
Suburb
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East Side is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois. It is on the far south side of the city, between the Calumet River and the Illinois-Indiana state line, 13 miles south of downtown Chicago.
Robertsdale
Hamlet
Robertsdale is a neighborhood in northernmost Hammond, Indiana, north of 129th Street and south of Lake Michigan. It is bounded to the south by Pulaski Park, to the west by the Chicago neighborhood of East Side, to the north by Lake Michigan, and to the east by the cities of Whiting and East Chicago. Robertsdale is situated 1½ miles southeast of Welcome to Chicago, Illinois.
South Deering
Suburb
South Deering, located on Chicago's far South Side, is the largest of the 77 official community areas of that city. Primarily an industrial area, a small residential neighborhood exists in the northeast corner and Lake Calumet takes up a large portion of the area. South Deering is situated 1½ miles west of Welcome to Chicago, Illinois.
Welcome to Chicago, Illinois
- Type: Sign
- Categories: information and tourism
- Location: Lake County, Northwestern Indiana, Indiana, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
41.70314° or 41° 42′ 11″ northLongitude
-87.52447° or 87° 31′ 28″ westOpen location code
86HJPF3G+76OpenStreetMap ID
node 6259485163OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=information
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