Sheridan Road
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Sheridan Road is a major north-south thoroughfare that leads from Diversey Parkway[1] in Chicago, Illinois, north to the Illinois-Wisconsin border and beyond. Throughout most of its run, it is the easternmost north-south through street, closest to Lake Michigan. From Chicago, it passes through the cities of Evanston, Wilmette, Kenilworth, Winnetka, Glencoe, Highland Park, Highwood, Fort Sheridan, Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, North Chicago, Waukegan and Zion, until it reaches the Illinois-Wisconsin state line in Winthrop Harbor. In Wisconsin, the road leads north through Pleasant Prairie and Kenosha, until it ends near Racine.
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[edit] History
Sheridan Road was original approved by Congress (circa 1832) as a military road from Fort Dearborn in Chicago to Fort Howard in Green Bay, Wisconsin.[2]
The road was named for Philip Henry Sheridan, a general in the Civil War. [3]
[edit] Places of Interest
There are several landmarks and places of interest along Sheridan Road. In order from southernmost to northernmost:
- Calvary Cemetery
- Northwestern University
- Grosse Point Light
- Baha'i Temple
- Plaza Del Lago Shopping Mall
- North Shore Congregation Israel
- Ravinia Festival
- Willits House
- Fort Sheridan
- Barat College
- Lake Forest College
- Great Lakes Naval Training Center
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