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Local public references

Maywood is a village in Cook County on the west bank of the Des Plaines River, according to the Village’s community page and adopted comprehensive plan. The Village of Maywood says it is less than 15 miles directly west of downtown Chicago; the comprehensive plan describes the regional setting as ten miles west of Chicago. The Des Plaines River forms Maywood’s eastern boundary in the Village’s comprehensive plan. Maywood is bounded on the north by Melrose Park, on the west by Bellwood, and on the south by Broadview and unincorporated Proviso Township.

The Village’s community page says Maywood was established on April 6, 1869, along the western banks of the Des Plaines River. The adopted comprehensive plan says Maywood began as a prairie community along the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad. The plan identifies Interstate 290, locally called the Eisenhower Expressway, as an east-west corridor along the southern portion of Maywood. The plan says Maywood’s traditional street-grid pattern provides local access and includes crossings of the Des Plaines River and Eisenhower Expressway.

Maywood’s commercial land uses are concentrated along Lake Street, Main Street, 5th Avenue, 1st Avenue, St. Charles Road, and Madison Street. The plan describes Lake Street as having predominantly automotive service uses and changing to traditional mixed-use commercial near 5th Avenue. The plan describes Main Street as primarily a light-industrial service corridor, with industrial uses adjacent to residential areas. The plan identifies 5th Avenue as a residential collector north of Erie Street and a commercial mixed-use center south of Erie Street to the Metra rail line.

The plan says 5th Avenue contains a notable concentration of civic uses between St. Charles Road and Washington Boulevard. The plan describes 1st Avenue as primarily residential until its intersection with Lake Street, with a mix of commercial, institutional, industrial, and residential properties farther along. Maywood’s official planning page says the Village zoning map displays permitted land uses and identifies residential, business, and manufacturing zoning categories. Maywood Grove is a Forest Preserves of Cook County site at Ohio Street and Des Plaines Avenue in Maywood.

Maywood Grove provides an accessible carry-in canoe landing with access to the Des Plaines River, plus parking and an accessible portable bathroom. The Forest Preserves page lists Maywood Grove’s hours as year-round, sunrise to sunset, and identifies an accessible picnic grove with shelter. Miller Meadow-South is entered from 1st Avenue south of Roosevelt Road, while Miller Meadow-North is entered from Roosevelt Road east of 1st Avenue. Miller Meadow includes trail access, hiking and walking, bicycling, cross-country skiing, birding, picnic groves, and an off-leash dog area.

The Forest Preserves identifies the Miller Meadow Trail as paved and approximately 2.0 miles long. Metra lists the Maywood station at 430 Main Street, Maywood, Illinois 60153, on the Union Pacific West line. Metra lists the Maywood station as accessible, in fare zone 2, with Pace connecting routes 309, 313, and 331. Metra lists four parking lots and 86 total parking spaces at the Maywood station, including four ADA spaces.

The Village’s adopted plan identifies parks and open space as 70.2 acres, or 5.8 percent of the mapped land-use total in its existing-land-use data. The comprehensive-plan map labels Maywood Park, Water Works Park, Bosco Park, Winfield Scott Park, Conner-Heise Park, Central Area Park, Burton Park, Standard Park, and Bataan Park within the Village map. The Village planning division describes the comprehensive plan as a long-term guide for planning and development decisions over a ten-to-twenty-year horizon.

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