Park Ridge (Illinois)
Park Ridge is a city in the Northwest Suburbs of Chicagoland, just outside of Chicago.
Get in
By train
- Metra serves Park Ridge with service on the Union Pacific Northwest Line. The 🌍 Park Ridge Metra station is at 100 South Summit Avenue, between Touhy Avenue and Prospect Avenue in downtown Park Ridge, and has a waiting room that is open 5AM-9PM daily, and also has a ticket agent available weekdays 5:25AM-12:55PM. The less used 🌍 Dee Road Metra station is at 950 Busse Highway, west of Dee Road and south of Oakton Street in northwest Park Ridge; this station has a shelter but no ticket agent.
Get around
See
Do
- 🌍
Pickwick Theatre, 5 S Prospect Ave, ☎ +1-847-825-5800. One of the true grand movie palaces remaining in the Chicagoland area. Make sure you have a ticket for the show on the main screen, though, not the shoebox mini-plex around the corner.
- Park Ridge Music Concerts, several free Friday night concerts held during the summer in front of city hall. Always start at 8PM.
Buy
Eat
- 🌍 Wally's Gyros, 1006 N Northwest Hwy, ☎ +1-847-825-2214. M-Sa 11AM-10PM, Su 11AM-9PM. Your stereotypical gyro and burger joint that has been around for decades.
Drink
- 🌍 Beer on the Wall, 106 Main St, ☎ +1-312-720-3732. M-Th 6AM-9PM, F 6AM-11PM, Sa noon-11PM Su noon-6PM. An eclectic selection of beers. Not a bar, but you can sample beers up to a certain amount. Has several board games and an old NES system for patrons to play.
Sleep
Connect
- 🌍
Park Ridge Public Library, 20 S. Prospect Ave (Next to Metra station.), ☎ +1-847-825-3123.
Go next
| Routes through Park Ridge |
| Milwaukee ← Des Plaines ← | N  |
→ Rosemont → Gary |
| Harvard ← Des Plaines ← | W  |
→ Niles → Chicago |
Ends at  |
W  |
→ Chicago → Ends at  |
| Harvard ← Des Plaines ← | NW  |
→ Chicago → END |
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