Clark Street Beach Bird Sanctuary

Clark Street Beach Bird Sanctuary is a nature reserve in Cook, Illinois. Access is restricted and requires permission. Clark Street Beach Bird Sanctuary is situated nearby to the neighborhood Downtown, as well as near Evanston Lakeshore Historic District.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Grosse Point Light and Main Street/Evanston station.

Grosse Point Light

Lighthouse

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The historic Grosse Point Light is located in Evanston, Illinois. Following several shipping disasters near Evanston, residents successfully lobbied the federal government for a lighthouse.

Main Street/Evanston station

Railway station

Photo: JeremyA, CC BY-SA 2.5.

Main Street/Evanston is the southernmost of the three commuter railroad stations in Evanston, Illinois. It is served by Metra's Union Pacific North Line trains, which go south to Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago and as far north as Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Marywood Academy

Town hall

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The Marywood Academy is a historic building located at 2100 Ridge Avenue in Evanston, Illinois. The building was built in 1900 as Visitation Academy to serve as a girls' Catholic school led by the Visitation Sisters.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Evanston and Wilmette.

Evanston

Photo: Madcoverboy, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Evanston is a city in the North Shore region of Illinois along the shores of Lake Michigan. Evanston has many identities: college town, dining destination, cultural center and gateway to the wealthy North Shore, although the city itself is anything but homogeneous in regards to economic status, culture and race.

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.

Rogers Park

Photo: Jdsteakley, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Rogers Park is the northern border of Chicago — the wild-eyed inheritor of uninhibited lakefront, swamps become beaches, and the beauty of Chicago bricks.

Clark Street Beach Bird Sanctuary

Access is restricted and requires permission.
Type: Nature reserve
Category: recreation area
Location: Cook, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude

42.0493° or 42° 2′ 58″ north

Longitude

-87.6734° or 87° 40′ 24″ west

Open location code

86JJ28XG+PJ

OpenStreetMap ID

way 479387113

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=nature_reserve

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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