Villa Park, Illinois

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Villa Park

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Villa Park.

U.S. Route 66 11 songs Interstate 65 13 songs

History of Villa Park

8213 West Summerdale RoadyGoat

1972

On an ordinary block in Norwood Park, a quiet northwest suburb of Chicago, John Wayne Gacy lived in a modest ranch house from 1971 to 1978. He worked as a contractor, threw block parties, performed as Pogo the Clown at children's hospitals, and buried twenty-six young men in the crawlspace beneath his own floors. The house was demolished in April 1979 after investigators finished excavating it. A different house was later built on the lot and given a different address, 8215, in part to give the neighborhood some distance from what had happened. The street itself is the same. The trees are older now. Most of the people who drive past do not know.

RoadyGoat → · 10.6 mi away

The Murder Castle Site RoadyGoat

1893

At the corner of 63rd and Wallace, on Chicago's South Side, there is now a post office. In 1893, during the World's Columbian Exposition, the three-story building on this lot belonged to a man calling himself H. H. Holmes. He had designed the upper floors himself, with windowless rooms, soundproofed walls, staircases that led nowhere, and gas jets he could control from his office. An unknown number of visitors to the Fair, most of them young women, checked into his hotel and were never seen again. Holmes was eventually arrested for insurance fraud; the building caught fire in 1895 before its full architecture could be documented, and was demolished decades later. The post office that replaced it is unremarkable. The sidewalk is the same one.

RoadyGoat → · 19.5 mi away

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

1967

America's premier particle physics laboratory, home to the Tevatron accelerator that discovered the top quark in 1995, located on 6,800 acres of restored Illinois prairie.

14.2 mi away

Chess Records

1950

The legendary recording studio where Muddy Waters, Chuck Berry, Howlin' Wolf, and Etta James created the Chicago blues sound that became rock and roll.

19.4 mi away

Haymarket Square

1886

Site of the 1886 Haymarket affair, a pivotal event in the international labor movement that led to the establishment of May Day.

17.5 mi away

Hull House

1889

The settlement house founded by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889 that pioneered social work, labor reform, and women's suffrage advocacy.

17.6 mi away

Wrigley Field

1914

Second-oldest active Major League Baseball park, home to the Chicago Cubs since 1916 and site of their drought-ending 2016 World Series victory.

17.6 mi away

Chicago Water Tower

1869

One of the few structures to survive the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, built in 1869 from Joliet limestone.

18.8 mi away

Things to Do in Villa Park

food 18.3 mi away
Lou Malnati's Pizzeria

Chicago deep dish royalty since 1971. The buttercrust is the secret. Lou learned from the original Pizzeria Uno founders.
historical 18.7 mi away
Route 66 Starting Point

The beginning (or end) of the Mother Road. A sign on Adams Street in Chicago.
food 8.4 mi away
Portillo's Hot Dogs

Chicago-style hot dogs and Italian beef since 1963. Drag it through the garden — never ketchup.
historical 18.2 mi away
Willis (Sears) Tower Skydeck

Stand on a glass box 1353 feet above Chicago. Your stomach will drop.
quirky 18.8 mi away
Cloud Gate (The Bean)

A liquid mercury-shaped sculpture that reflects the Chicago skyline. Everyone takes a photo.

Everything Near Villa Park

151 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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