Howard Park

Howard Park is a park in New Trier Township, Cook, Illinois which is located on 17th Street. Howard Park is situated nearby to the community center Warming House Youth Center, as well as near the police station Wilmette Police Department.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Gross Point Village Hall and Wilmette station.

Gross Point Village Hall

Museum

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The Gross Point Village Hall, located at 609 Ridge Road in Wilmette, Illinois, was the village hall of the defunct village of Gross Point, Illinois. The village of Gross Point, named for a French description of a turn in nearby Lake Michigan's shoreline, was settled from the 1830s onward and incorporated in 1874. Gross Point Village Hall is situated 950 feet southwest of Howard Park.

Wilmette station

Railway station

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Wilmette is a commuter railroad station in Wilmette, Illinois that is served by Metra's Union Pacific North Line. Trains go south to Ogilvie Transportation Center and as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin. Wilmette station is situated 2,900 feet east of Howard Park.

Kenilworth station

Railway station

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Kenilworth is a commuter railroad station in Kenilworth, Illinois, a small and affluent village in the North Shore area of Chicago. Metra's Union Pacific North Line trains go south to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin. Kenilworth station is situated 3,600 feet north of Howard Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wilmette and Kenilworth.

Wilmette

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Wilmette is 16 miles north of Chicago. It is part of the affluent corridor of lakefront Chicago suburbs known as the North Shore. It is the location of the world's oldest still-standing Bahá'í House of Worship.

Kenilworth

Village

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Kenilworth is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States, 15 miles north of downtown Chicago. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 2,514.

Central Street

Neighborhood

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Central Street is the principal east-west artery in the far north of Evanston, Illinois and is a major thoroughfare in other northern and northwest suburbs of Chicago.

Howard Park

Type: Park
Address: 830 17th Street, Wilmette, IL 60091
Categories: recreation area and sports location
Location: New Trier Township, Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.07737° or 42° 4′ 39″ north

Longitude

-87.72007° or 87° 43′ 12″ west

Operator

Wilmette Park District

Open location code

86JJ37GH+WX

OpenStreetMap ID

way 23609353

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

OpenStreetMap feature

sport=lacrosse

OpenStreetMap feature

sport=american_football

OpenStreetMap feature

sport=softball

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Highlights include Warming House Youth Center and Wilmette Police Department.

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