Isle a la Cache Museum

The Isle a la Cache Museum is a free-standing museum operated by the Forest Preserve District of Will County on Isle a la Cache, an island in the Des Plaines River.

Type: Museum
Description: museum in Illinois, United States
Also known as: “Isle La Cache Museum”
Address: 501 East Romeo Road, Romeoville, IL 60446

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Romeoville station and Romeoville High School.

Romeoville station

Railway station

Photo: MidwestRailFanner, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Romeoville is a station on Metra's Heritage Corridor at the intersection of 135th Street and New Avenue in Romeoville, Illinois. As of 2018, Romeoville is the 170th busiest of Metra's 236 non-downtown stations, with an average of 148 weekday boardings. Romeoville station is situated 1 mile east of Isle a la Cache Museum.

Romeoville High School

School

Romeoville High School, or RHS, is a public four-year high school located in Romeoville, Illinois, a southwest suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States. Romeoville High School is situated 1 mile southwest of Isle a la Cache Museum.

Lemont Refinery

Factory

Lemont Refinery is an oil refinery in Romeoville, Illinois owned and operated by CITGO Petroleum Corporation. Originally constructed in the early 1920s, it acquired a nearby refinery as Pure Oil and then it significantly expanded the refinery between 1968 through 1970 by its then owner Union Oil. Lemont Refinery is situated 1½ miles northeast of Isle a la Cache Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Romeoville and Lockport.

Romeoville

Town

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Romeoville is a village in Will County, Illinois, United States. The village is located 26 mi southwest of Chicago on the Gateway Wetlands, directly west of the Des Plaines River and Historic U.S. Route 66.

Lockport

Town

Photo: Jakesoky, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Lockport is a city in Will County, Illinois, United States, located 30 miles southwest of Chicago. Per the 2020 census, the population was 26,094. The city was incorporated in 1853. Lockport is situated 3½ miles south of Isle a la Cache Museum.

Bolingbrook

Photo: lanehaugen, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Bolingbrook is a village in Will and DuPage counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is a southwest suburb of Chicago on I-55 and Historic Route 66. The village was a new town built on the Gateway Wetlands west of the Des Plaines River in the 1960s.

Isle a la Cache Museum

Categories: building, tourism, public building, and tourist attraction
Location: Will, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

41.63971° or 41° 38′ 23″ north

Longitude

-88.06914° or 88° 4′ 9″ west

Operator

Forest Preserve District of Will County

Open location code

86HHJWQJ+V8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 44764462

OpenStreetMap feature

building=public

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q16997350

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Isle a la Cache County Forest Preserve and Will County Power Plant.

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