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Melrose Park is a village in Cook County, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. It has a population of 24,796, a history of industry and manufacturing, and a Metra railroad station.
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Melrose Park is a suburb of Sydney, Australia, named after an aviator. It is undergoing a major urban renewal project with 5000 new apartments and public facilities.
- North Avenue
- Thatcher Woods
- Scudiero’s Italian Bakery & Deli
- Cernan Earth and Space Center
- Gouin Park
- Dunk Donuts
- Tom’s Steak House
- Des Plaines River Trail
- Frank Lloyd Wright Home and Studio
- Unity Temple
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On Melrose Park’s north side is a major thoroughfare (Illinois 64/North Avenue) that runs east to west from Old Town Chicago as far as the Mississippi. Around Melrose Park, North Avenue is a commercial corridor, with standalone big box stores and shopping centers like Winston Plaza, Melrose Place Shopping Center and the Melrose Park Center, home to...
The Des Plaines River forms Melrose Park’s natural eastern boundary and wriggles through the suburbs north to south through a long chain of forest preserves. Thatcher Woods is 245 acres of hardwood floodplain forest, nothing short of stunning in the fall when the leaves turn. At dawn and dusk you’ll have a good chance of sighting deer, and rutting ...
When it comes to food, Melrose Park has a few veterans that have been part of the scenery for decades. This goes for Scudiero’s, which has been around since 1954 and is into its third generation, using traditional recipes and techniques brought over by the founder Umbaldo from Campania. You’ve got subs, sandwiches and grilled paninis made fresh to ...
The leafy, 110-acre campus of Triton College, established in 1964, is north of Melrose Park and merits a visit for its public planetarium. Founded in 1974 and named for Apollo 10 astronaut and Chicago-native Eugene Cernan (1934-2017), the center has a fulldome planetarium (upgraded in 2015) and absorbing exhibits relating to astronomy and spaceflig...
Melrose Park is served by the Veterans Park District, maintaining facilities here and in neighboring Franklin Park and Northlake. Gouin Park is special for its public outdoor pool, open Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day (postseason, weekends only from mid-August). A haven for families on hot summer days, the complex has a giant leisure pool wi...
Another stalwart local business on Lake Street is Dunk Donuts, which has supplied Melrose Park with indulgent and delectable baked treats for years. This hole in the wall offers a wide selection of donuts by the dozen, half-dozen or as singles. The signatures are blueberry, toasted coconut, long johns and double chocolate, and these tend to sell ou...
Chicago has a reputation for its steakhouses, and one of the best is right here in Melrose Park on North Avenue. With an old school approach, Tom’s Steak House can be found exactly where it opened in 1952, pleasing Chicagoans for 70+ years with its USDA prime steaks, hand-cut in house. These juicy cuts, including T-bone steak, New York strip and bo...
Next to Melrose Place Shopping Center you can leave the city behind on a long walk or bike ride in lush floodplain forest. You can travel for miles along this stretch of the Des Plaines River Trail and will only once have to cross a road, at Grand Ave in River Grove. The path is mostly on the east bank of the river, guiding you through a succession...
Five minutes away on the opposite bank of the Des Plaines River, Oak Park and its rich architectural heritage is too close to be ignored. This is where Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) settled at the turn of the century and developed his Prairie School style. Your first port of call needs to be the house and studio that he built in 1889, living there...
Arguably Wright’s greatest single contribution in his Chicago years is the Unitarian Universalist church, built between 1905 and 1908. Part of a nationwide UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Unity Temple is held by many as history’s first Modern building, and became a reference point for important Modernist artists like Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. On th...
Melrose Park is a western suburb of Chicago with shopping, dining and natural attractions. Explore the Trailside Museum of Natural History, the Cernan Earth and Space Center, Thatcher Woods and more.
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Jun 10, 2021 · Just a mere 20 minutes away from the very busy city of Chicago is the very quaint yet bustling village of Melrose Park in Cook County, Chicago. Known as one of the Windy City’s suburbs, Melrose Park boasts of numerous restaurants and tourist destinations.
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