#1 of 30 Things To Do in Crestwood
Rush and Division Streets
Oak Lawn IL
~4.32 miles from Crestwood city center
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Mount Greenwood (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~4.57 miles from Crestwood city center
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Mount Greenwood is one of 77 well-defined Chicago community areas. It is a predominantly Irish-Catholic neighborhood on the Southwest Side of Chicago. It neighbors the Chicago neighborhoods of Beverly and Morgan Park to the east, the suburb of Evergreen Park to the north, the suburb of Oak Lawn to the west, and the suburbs of Merrionette Park and Alsip to the south. Because of the presence of cemeteries, the area was once known as Seven Holy Tombs. Mount Greenwood is about 14 miles SW of the Loop.Even though there were a small number of settlers in Mt. Greenwood, the origins of Mt. Greenwood began in 1877 when it was surveyed by George Waite. Mr. Waite established an area where he could trade with the local Native Americans. Mount Greenwood Cemetery was established around this time by Mr...
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Morgan Park (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~5.07 miles from Crestwood city center
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Morgan Park, located on the far south side of city of Chicago, Illinois is one of the city's 77 official community areas.Morgan Park is located south of Beverly (properly Beverly Hills), with an invisible borderline drawn at 107th street, though both neighborhoods share the same ZIP code. Additionally, Morgan Park is home to significant institutions and venues, including the Beverly Arts Center, the historic 111th Street train station on the Rock Island District, Morgan Park Academy, and a substantial number of upscale homes. Morgan Park is home to Morgan Park High School and also one of the Chicago Public School's oldest school buildings (Esmond Elementary School) being built in the 1890s, the early 1900s, and the 70's. Morgan Park/ Beverly was once a suburb that was later annexed by ...
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West Pullman (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~5.57 miles from Crestwood city center
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West Pullman is a neighborhood located on the far south side of the city of Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago. West Pullman is not a part of the historic Pullman company town.It is bounded on the north by 115th Street, on the east by the former Illinois Central Railroad, on the south by the Calumet River and Riverdale, on the west by Calumet Park, Blue Island and Ashland Avenue.West Pullman is also home to the largest urban photovoltaic solar plant in the United States. The 10 MW plant utilizes 32,800 SunPower solar panels, spans 39 acres, and generates enough power to supply energy to approximately 1500 homes in the Midwest. It is owned and operated by Exelon and came online in early 2010.
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Oak Lawn (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~5.95 miles from Crestwood city center
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Oak Lawn is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 55,245 at the 2000 census.Oak Lawn is a suburb of the city of Chicago, located southwest of the city. It shares borders with the city in two areas, but is surrounded mostly by other suburbs independent of Chicago.
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Beverly (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~6.53 miles from Crestwood city center
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Beverly Hills (or Beverly) is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois, located on the southwestern edge of the city. It consists of a variety of sizes of homes, some upscale and built on large lots in relation to most of Chicago. Beverly was initially a suburb perched atop a ridge later annexed by the city.Beverly has access (by public transport or car) to all of the Chicago financial markets and attractions, yet retains itself as a peaceful, quiet community. Beverly is one of the top five largest historic districts in any major city in the USA, and the homes there reflect this historic distinction. Beverly has consistently ranked as the safest neighborhood in Chicago. Beverly also has the 3rd highest median household income in Chicago.Beverly is notable as one ...
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Tweeter Center
Mokena IL
~6.61 miles from Crestwood city center
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First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre is an outdoor music venue in Tinley Park, Illinois that opened in 1990. It is one of the largest music venues in the Chicago area with capacities of up to 28,000 spectators. The facility was formerly named Tweeter Center Chicago, World Music Theater and New World Music Theater.Due to its location in the Chicago metro area, it is an ample site for visitors from all of Chicagoland and is one of only a few large outdoor ampitheatres in the Chicago area.First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. acquired the naming rights for 7 years beginning in 2006.The venue is owned by Live Nation.Many artists and festivals have been hosted at the ampitheatre including:Farm Aid
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First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre (Tweeter Center)
Tinley Park IL
~6.62 miles from Crestwood city center
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First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre is an outdoor music venue in Tinley Park, Illinois that opened in 1990. It is one of the largest music venues in the Chicago area with capacities of up to 28,000 spectators. The facility was formerly named Tweeter Center Chicago, World Music Theater and New World Music Theater.First Midwest Bancorp, Inc. acquired the naming rights for 7 years beginning in 2006.The venue is owned by Live Nation.
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Hometown (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~6.93 miles from Crestwood city center
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Washington Heights (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~7.11 miles from Crestwood city center
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Washington Heights, one of the 77 official community areas, is located on the far south side of the city of Chicago, Illinois, loosely bordered in the south by 107th street, the north by 89th street, the west by Beverly Avenue and the East by Eggleston Avenue. It was once a bedroom community of German and Irish families whose immigration to the Midwestern United States began circa 1880. In the 1970s the demographics changed to primarily African-American, as it still exists today.Illinois Place Names (Illinois State Historical Society Occasional Publications Number 55, 1989) indicates that the area of Washington Heights historically was also known as Blue Island Ridge, Campbell’s Woods, Dummy Junction, and North Blue Island. A Post Office by the name of Washington Heights was established ...
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Brainerd (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~7.11 miles from Crestwood city center
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This grouping of neighborhoods has experienced a decline in population over the past two decades. However, thanks to new construction development and renovation of older homes, a steady growth trend is starting to emerge, especially in Burnside.Washington Heights is located on the far south side of Chicago. It as originally settled by European immigrants who were drawn to the area for its railroad jobs. This is a very residential area with plenty of housing, but virtually no commerce. Affordable homes can be found for less than $100,000, but they will most always require some renovation. It is a most blue-collar community with hard-working residents.It should be noted that the low real estate values in Brainerd and Washington Heights are start to attract developers. Prices are not ...
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Riverdale (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~7.20 miles from Crestwood city center
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Riverdale is a village in Cook County, Illinois, United States. The population was 15,055 at the 2000 census.Riverdale is located at 41°38'26?N 87°37'50?WCoordinates: 41°38'26?N 87°37'50?W (41.640684, -87.630645).According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 3.8 square miles (9.8 km²), of which, 3.6 square miles (9.4 km²) of it is land and 0.2 square miles (0.4 km²) of it (3.96%) is water.As of the 2000 census, there were 15,055 people, 4,987 households, and 3,675 families residing in the village. The population density was 4,138.6 people per square mile (1,596.9/km²). There were 5,441 housing units at an average density of 1,495.7/sq mi (577.1/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 11.07% White, 86.38% African American, 0.16% Native American, ...
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Martinique Banquet Complex
Burbank IL
~7.58 miles from Crestwood city center
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Scottsdale (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~7.61 miles from Crestwood city center
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Roseland (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~7.79 miles from Crestwood city center
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Roseland, located on the far south side of the city, is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois. It includes the neighborhoods of Fernwood, Princeton Park, Lilydale, West Chesterfield, Rosemoor, Sheldon Heights and West Roseland. Roseland was settled in the 1840s by Dutch immigrants who called the area "de Hooge Prairie", the High Prairie because it was built on higher, drier ground than the earlier Dutch settlement several miles further south of the Little Calumet River which was called "de Laage Prairie", the Low Prairie, now South Holland, Illinois.The community was entirely agrarian until the late 1800s when the town of Pullman, Chicago was built between Roseland and Lake Calumet. George M. Pullman planned a model industrial city built around a factory that manufa...
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Ashburn (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~8.03 miles from Crestwood city center
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Arctic Arena
10700 West 160th St. Orland Park FL - (708) 403-4231
~8.09 miles from Crestwood city center
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USHL Combine
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Pullman (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~8.47 miles from Crestwood city center
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Pullman is a neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago, twelve miles from the Chicago Loop by Lake Calumet. It is also one of the 77 well-defined Chicago Community Areas.The area known as Pullman encompasses a much wider area than the two historic areas (the older historic area is often referred to as just "Pullman", a Chicago Landmark district and the northern annex historic area is usually referred to as "North Pullman"). This article deals with all areas, although the area built by the Pullman company is bounded by 106th Street on the North, 115th Street on the South, Cottage Grove on the west, and the railroad tracks on the east.Today the neighborhood of Pullman is quickly gentrifying with many residents involved in the restoration of the district through their own homes and throug...
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Auburn Gresham (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~8.60 miles from Crestwood city center
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South Deering (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~9.23 miles from Crestwood city center
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South Deering, one of the 77 official community areas of the City of Chicago, Illinois, is located on the far south side. It is a very industrial neighborhood, consisting of a small group of homes in the northeast corner and Lake Calumet taking up most of the remainder. It exists in the 10th Ward, what was once the reign of Alderman Edward Vrdolyak, now in private law practice. It was the home of the now defunct Wisconsin Steel Works, originally the Joseph H. Brown Iron and Steel Company, which opened in 1875 and was the first steel mill in the entire Calumet region. Since the closing of the plant, the neighborhood has gone through an economic depression. South Deering was the home of primarily lower middle class dwellers. Jeffery Manor was once a predominantly Jewish community populated b...
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Hegewisch (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~9.38 miles from Crestwood city center
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Hegewisch (pronounced "heg-wish" by the locals it is actually a German surname pronounced "hege-vish"), one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois, is located on the city's far south side. It is bordered by the neighborhoods of Riverdale and South Deering to the west, the East Side to the north, the village of Burnham to the south and the city of Hammond, Indiana to the east. It is part of the 10th ward of Chicago. John Pope is the alderman as of April 2005. It has a commuter rail station on the South Shore Line. The community area is named for Adolph Hegewisch, the president of U.S. Rolling Stock Company who hoped to establish “an ideal workingman's community” when he laid out the town along a rail line in 1883, six years before Chicago annexed the town. One of Hegewisch's more no...
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West Lawn (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~9.39 miles from Crestwood city center
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West Lawn, one of Chicago's 77 official community areas, is located on the southwest side of the city. It is a quite friendly community, and is considered to be a "melting pot" of sorts, due to its constant change of races moving in and out of the area, as well as the diversity that exists there. It has a small town atmosphere in the big city. People are kind and are established as long-term residents. West Lawn is home to many Polish-Americans, Irish-Americans, Mexican-Americans, and other people of Latin American and Eastern European origin. The current Alderman of the West Lawn community is Alderman Frank Olivo.
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Marquette Park
Chicago IL
~9.40 miles from Crestwood city center
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Marquette Park, the largest park on the southwest side of Chicago at 323 acres (1.31 km2), is located at 41.767951°N 87.70287°W Coordinates: 41.767951°N 87.70287°W in Chicago Lawn neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. The park is named for Father Jacques Marquette (1637-1675).Marquette Park’s three and a half acre Ashburn prairie remnant has a very special history. The story begins during the pre-settlement era at 87th Street and Kedzie Avenue on a 2-acre (8,100 m2) lot near the Evergreen Cemetery. It was at this location that the original Ashburn prairie thrived, untouched by farming, housing and commercial development. The mesic prairie contained nearly 100 species of native plants. Forbs such as Mountain Mint (Pycanthemum verticillatum), Nodding Wild Onion (Allium cernuum), Nodding Lad...
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Chatham (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~9.40 miles from Crestwood city center
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Since the mid-1950s, Chatham has been a stronghold of Chicago's African American middle class. Defined by a jagged boundary lying within 79th and 95th Streets, the Illinois Central Railroad and the Dan Ryan Expressway, Chatham contains one of the most solidly middle-class African American populations in the city, and is home to several of the most successful black businesses in the country.More suitable for duck hunting than for human habitation, the swampy area was known as “Mud Lake” to hunters and as “Hogs Swamp” to the farmers who began to settle the western region of Chatham during the 1860s. The first buildings in the area were corncribs assembled by the Illinois Central in 1860 along the tracks between 75th and 95th Streets. Industrial development began to the north after 1876 w...
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#25 of 30 Things To Do in Crestwood
Toyota Park
7300 W. 71st St. Bridgeview IL - 708-594-7700
~9.60 miles from Crestwood city center
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Toyota Park is a soccer-specific stadium located at 71st Street and Harlem Avenue in Bridgeview, Illinois. It is the home stadium of the Chicago Fire, members of Major League Soccer (MLS). Toyota Park was developed at a cost of around $100 million. The facility opened June 11, 2006.The Village of Bridgeview recently approved development on 8 acres (32,000 m2) of the stadium site near the corner of 71st and Harlem for two mid-range hotels, an indoor water park, four to six restaurants, and other retail to begin construction in late 2007. As of March 2009, no construction has yet occurred.Toyota Park also hosts the Chicago Machine of Major League Lacrosse, and the Chicago Red Stars of Women's Professional Soccer. Only the stadium's east end stands are used for these events.The stadiu...
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Justice (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~9.69 miles from Crestwood city center
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Burnside (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~9.73 miles from Crestwood city center
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Burnside is one of the 77 official community areas of Chicago, Illinois, and is located on the city's south side. This area is also called by locals, "The Triangle", as it is bordered by railroad tracks on every side; the Illinois Central on the west, the Rock Island on the south and the New York Central on the east.Originally considered part of Roseland and the Chatham communities, it was distinguished as one of the 77 Chicago communities when the University of Chicago established its official map of Chicago communities. The area was mostly undeveloped swamp land north of Lake Calumet until after the Civil War. The Illinois Central Railroad (ICRR) built the Burnside Station at 95th street and named it after Ambrose Burnside, a Civil War general and official of the ICRR.By the 1890s, t...
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Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian
6500 S Pulaski Rd Chicago IL - 773-582-6500
~9.74 miles from Crestwood city center
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Chicago Lawn (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~9.74 miles from Crestwood city center
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Chicago Lawn is one of the 77 community areas of Chicago, Illinois. It is located on the southwest side of the city. Its community neighbors include Gage Park, West Englewood, Ashburn, and West Lawn. It is bounded by Bell Avenue on the east, Central Park Avenue on the west, 59th Street on the north, and 75th Street on the south. This puts it 13 km (8 miles) southwest of the Loop. The local residents call the area "Marquette Park" after the 323-acre (1.31 km2) park in its center.
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Clearing (Neighborhood)
Chicago IL
~10.26 miles from Crestwood city center
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Clearing, one of the 77 official community areas, is located on the southwest side of the City of Chicago, Illinois. The southern portion of Chicago Midway International Airport is located in this community area.The Clearing Industrial District was founded in 1907. The area gets its name from the fact that farm goods from the area were "cleared" (delivered) through the airport and railroad yards. Clearing was first incorporated as a town in 1912. The Clearing area quickly became a part of Chicago in 1915 because the growing population needed services provided by the city. It is bordered on the west by Harlem Avenue, on the east by railroad tracks just east of Cicero Ave., to the North by the Belt Railway tracks between 59th and 60th streets and to the south by 65th street. The southern...
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