Somme Prairie Grove Nature Preserve

Somme Prairie Grove Nature Preserve is a nature reserve in Northfield Township, Cook, Illinois. Somme Prairie Grove Nature Preserve is situated nearby to the neighborhood Fair Meadows, as well as near the locality Somme Woods.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Northbrook station and Society of the Divine Word.

Northbrook station

Railway station

Photo: Adam Moss, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Northbrook is a commuter railroad station on Metra's Milwaukee District North Line in Northbrook, Illinois. The station is located at 1401 Shermer Road, is 21.0 miles away from Chicago Union Station, the southern terminus of the line, and serves commuters between Union Station and Fox Lake, Illinois.

Society of the Divine Word

Church

The Society of the Divine Word, popularly called the Verbites or the Divine Word Missionaries, and sometimes the Steyler Missionaries, is a Catholic clerical religious congregation of pontifical right for men.

Lake Cook Road station

Railway station

Photo: Lost on Belmont, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Lake Cook Road is a Metra station along the Milwaukee District North Line. It is located at 601 Lake Cook Road in Deerfield, Illinois, is 23.4 miles away from Chicago Union Station, the southern terminus of the line, and serves commuters between Union Station and Fox Lake, Illinois.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Northbrook and Deerfield.

Northbrook

Photo: bogdanstepniak, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Northbrook is a city of 33,000 people in Illinois. Northbrook's downtown shopping district features boutiques and specialty stores.

Deerfield

Photo: Zcarstvnz, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Deerfield is a village in Lake and Cook counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. A northern suburb of Chicago, Deerfield is located on the North Shore, about 28 miles north of downtown Chicago.

Highland Park

Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 3.0.

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.

Somme Prairie Grove Nature Preserve

Type: Nature reserve
Categories: forest and recreation area
Location: Northfield Township, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.1414° or 42° 8′ 29″ north

Longitude

-87.831° or 87° 49′ 52″ west

Operator

Forest Preserve District of Cook County

Open location code

86JJ45R9+HJ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 175017597

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=forest

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Fair Meadows and Somme Woods.

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