Nearby Destinations to Chicago: Wisconsin

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• Lake Geneva, across the Wisconsin border, is the other big summer getaway. Nearby are the Kettle Moraine state parks, with good mountain biking.

• Milwaukee and its venerable breweries are less than two hours from Chicago on I-94, via Amtrak, and by intercity bus services.

• Spring Green is an easy weekend trip from Chicago, about three and a half hours from town on I-90. It's the home of two unique architectural wonders: Frank Lloyd Wright's magnificent estate Taliesin, and Alex Jordan's mysterious museum The House on the Rock.

• The Wisconsin Dells are another (wet) summer fun destination, just three hours north of the city by car (I-90/94), also accessible by Amtrak train.

• Cedarburg is a popular festival town with a charming downtown featured on the National Register of Historic Places. It is located 20 miles north of downtown Milwaukee. Take 1-94 to Milwaukee and continue north on I-43.

END ←	N  S	→ Bolingbrook → Bloomington
END ←	N  S	→ Manteno → Kankakee
Rockford ← Rosemont ←	W  E	→ Hammond → Gary
Waukegan ← Skokie ←	W  E	→ Lansing → Gary
Schaumburg ← Oak Park ←	W  E	→ END
Waukegan ← Skokie ←	N  S	→ Hammond → Terre Haute
Bloomington-Normal ← Joliet ←	S  N	→ END