Wilmette



Wilmette is 16 miles (25 km) north of Chicago. It is part of the affluent corridor of lakefront Chicago suburbs known as the North Shore. It is the location of the world's oldest still-standing Bahá'í House of Worship.

Get in

 * Close by Interstate I-90/94, known locally as the Edens Expressway.
 * By taxi, from O'Hare airport
 * By Pace bus from neighboring suburbs

By train

 * The CTA Purple Line 'L' terminates at, located on Linden Avenue between 3rd and 4th Streets, a few blocks west of the Baha'i House of Worship. The Purple Line provides all-day service to Evanston and Howard Station in Rogers Park on Chicago's Far North Side. It also provides weekday rush hour service to the Loop.
 * The Metra Union Pacific / North Line stops at, along Green Bay Road between Central and Lake Avenues in Downtown Wilmette. The Union Pacific / North Line runs from Ogilvie Transportation Center in Downtown Chicago's West Loop all the way to Kenosha, Wisconsin, stopping at many towns along Chicagoland's North Shore on the way.

Get around

 * Car
 * Bicycle

PACE bus routes

 * 213 Green Bay Road
 * 421 Wilmette Avenue
 * 422 Linden CTA/Glenview/Northbrook Court
 * 423 Linden CTA-The Glen-Harlem CTA

Sleep
There are no hotels in Wilmette. Try hotels in Evanston, Skokie, or Glenview.

Go next

 * Bicycle or run the  Green Bay Trail, to Ravinia, !
 * Hop on a train south to Evanston or onward to Chicago