Burnside Illinois Map
Explore Burnside, Illinois, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
Interactive Map of Burnside, Illinois
How to Use This Burnside, Illinois Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Burnside, Illinois. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Illinois or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Burnside.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Burnside |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Cook County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 41.720312 |
| Longitude | -87.598103 |
| Density | N/A /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 60628, 62330 |
| Area Code | 312, 773, 217 |
| County Seat | Chicago |
About Burnside, Illinois
Burnside is a locality in Cook County, Illinois, United States. Burnside is located at 41.7203°N, 87.5981°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. ZIP codes: 60628, 62330.Burnside stretches across a flat, industrial-edged expanse where the horizon is defined by the sharp, elevated silhouette of Stony Island Ridge. It lies 5.1 miles south of Hyde Park, IL (from Hyde Park, IL: bearing 182°T), and is situated 9.4 miles south-southeast of Chicago. The air here holds a distinct, metallic weight, carrying the damp, restless energy of the nearby coast, which sits a mere nine miles away, pulling the scent of salt toward the land. A short distance to the north, the waters of Lake Calumet mirror the heavy, gray-bellied clouds that drift in from the plains, while the Calumet River carves a slow, deliberate path through the surrounding terrain. Within the immediate neighborhood, the grounds of Theophilus Schmid School offer a quiet, paved respite, marking the center of a landscape that feels perpetually caught between the stillness of the prairie and the industrious hum of the city.
Burnside remains a place of deep-rooted, working-class endurance, shaped by the rhythmic clatter of transit and the historical layering of residential blocks against the industrial belt. The economy has long leaned into the heavy machinery of the grid, drawing sustenance from the proximity to the Howard Slip and the arterial flow of regional trade. Life here moves with a steady, unadorned persistence, where the long shadows cast by the elevated tracks dictate the pace of the afternoon. While the distant, wilder expanses of the Elizabeth A Conkey Forest or the open serenity of Wooded Island provide a necessary contrast, the residents find their own beauty in the stark geometry of brick facades and the way the evening light catches the dust rising from the Kickapoo Meadows.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Park No. 562 (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 088° E
- Lake Calumet (Conservation Area) — 1.2 mi, 154° SE
- Railroad Marsh (Local Park) — 1.2 mi, 141° SE
- Mayor Harold Washington Memorial (Monument) — 1.5 mi, 328° NW
- Jesse Owens (Monument) — 1.6 mi, 051° NE
- Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 2.2 mi, 095° E
- Mahalia Jackson (Public Artwork) — 2.5 mi, 328° NW
- Michelle Obama's Childhood Home (Attraction) — 2.9 mi, 021° N
- Black Cinema House (Cinema) — 3.0 mi, 004° N
- Al Capone's House (Attraction) — 3.1 mi, 340° N
- Dan Ryan Woods (State Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 273° W
- Vanderpoel Art Museum (Museum) — 3.6 mi, 268° W
- Max Palevsky Cinema (Cinema) — 4.7 mi, 002° N
- The Renaissance Society (Museum) — 4.8 mi, 358° N
- Calumet Park (State Park) — 4.8 mi, 170° S
- U-505 Submarine (Attraction) — 5.0 mi, 010° N
- Definition Theatre (Theatre) — 5.2 mi, 001° N
- Green Line Performing Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 5.2 mi, 349° N
- 4th Ward (Arts Centre) — 5.4 mi, 002° N
- Obama Kissing Rock (Attraction) — 5.5 mi, 003° N
- Former Lincoln School Entrance (Historic Ruins) — 5.7 mi, 184° S
- Memorial Stadium (Stadium) — 6.2 mi, 229° SW
- Gallery Guichard (Gallery) — 6.2 mi, 352° N
- Indiana Dunes National Park (National Park) — 16.3 mi, 151° SE · 11k acres
- Midewin Other (National Forest) — 30.7 mi, 223° SW · 18k acres
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About This Burnside Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Burnside, Illinois. Coordinates: 41.720312, -87.598103. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Burnside includes the ZIP code (60628, 62330), telephone area code (312, 773, 217), county seat of Cook County (Chicago), and school district assignment.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |
