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Shorewood Illinois Map

Explore Shorewood, 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 Shorewood, Illinois

How to Use This Shorewood, Illinois Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Shorewood, 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 Shorewood.

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	Shorewood
State	Illinois (IL)
County	DuPage County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Central Time (America/Chicago)

Latitude	41.517527
Longitude	-88.215155
Population	18,186
Density	870.2 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	60139, 60404
Area Code	312, 773, 708
County Seat	Wheaton
School District	Troy Community Consolidated School District 30C

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About Shorewood, Illinois

Shorewood is a locality in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. It has a population of 18,186. The population density is 870.2 people per km². Shorewood is located at 41.5175°N, 88.2152°W. It observes the Central Time (America/Chicago) timezone. Shorewood is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 60139, 60404.

Shorewood occupies a broad, level expanse of the Midwestern interior, where the flatness of the terrain is interrupted only by the subtle shifts in the horizon and the orderly geometry of residential growth. The air here holds the dry, heavy scent of a continental climate, shifting with the seasons from the sharp bite of winter frost to the humid, golden warmth that settles over the prairie grasses in late summer. Within the immediate landscape, the East Branch Du Page River traces a quiet, winding path two miles away, while the waters of Rush Lake rest in a similar proximity, offering a stillness that mirrors the vast, open sky. Shorewood Park serves as a central point of local recreation, providing a green threshold where the suburban landscape meets the persistent memory of the wilder plains that once stretched uninterrupted across this latitude.

Development in Shorewood reflects a deliberate transition from its agrarian foundations into a modern corridor of trade and commuter life, anchored by the infrastructure that links the wider region toward the metropolitan gravity of Chicago. The local economy draws strength from this connectivity, maintaining a steady, industrious pace as the rows of corn and soybeans that defined the early landscape have gradually ceded ground to the organized patterns of neighborhood streets and commercial hubs. Five miles away, the Winfield Mounds County Forest Preserve offers a tangible connection to the deep history of the land, standing as a reminder of the eras before the grid. Life in Shorewood moves with a pragmatic, unpretentious rhythm, where the quality of light at dusk—slanting low across the flat fields—reveals a quiet beauty in the way the modern structures sit against the enduring, wide-open sky of the plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Towne Center Park (Local Park) — 0.8 mi, 306° NW
Shorewood Four Seasons Park (Local Park) — 0.9 mi, 254° W
Colvin Grove Preserve 2 (Local Conservation Area) — 1.6 mi, 098° E
Hammel Woods Preserve 1 (Local Conservation Area) — 2.0 mi, 050° NE
Illinois and Michigan Canal State Trail (State Recreation Area) — 3.1 mi, 145° SE
Wedgewood Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 3.3 mi, 005° N
Rock Run Rookery Preserve 1 (State Conservation Area) — 4.0 mi, 150° SE
Ellis House and Equestrian Center (Attraction) — 5.3 mi, 273° W
Des Plaines State Fish and Wildlife Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.4 mi, 154° SE
Plainfield Tornado Memorial (Monument) — 5.8 mi, 006° N
Lake Renwick Heron Rookery Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 5.9 mi, 013° N
Mary Alfred Moes 1828-1899 (Public Artwork) — 6.1 mi, 080° E
Richard A. Rock Amphitheater (Theatre) — 6.2 mi, 001° N
Channahon State Park (State Park) — 6.4 mi, 186° S
Joliet Area Historical Society Museum (Museum) — 6.9 mi, 084° E
Illinois Rock & Roll Museum on Route 66 (Museum) — 6.9 mi, 084° E
High Prairie Trail (Monument) — 7.1 mi, 286° W
Midewin Other (National Forest) — 7.5 mi, 163° S · 18k acres
Old telephone poles (Attraction) — 7.8 mi, 116° SE
Lockport Prairie Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 8.4 mi, 058° NE
Smallest Village in U.S. with Armory (Monument) — 8.5 mi, 277° W
Neil Carey Arena (Stadium) — 9.2 mi, 049° NE
Philip Lynch Theatre (Theatre) — 9.3 mi, 048° NE
Illinois State Museum-Lockport Gallery (Gallery) — 9.4 mi, 059° NE
3rd Floor Gallery (Gallery) — 9.6 mi, 058° NE
Little White School Museum (Museum) — 13.3 mi, 329° NW
AMC Naperville 16 (Cinema) — 13.5 mi, 001° N
McDonald Farm (Museum) — 14.3 mi, 015° N
Silver Springs (State Park) — 17.0 mi, 294° NW
Indiana Dunes National Park (National Park) — 39.9 mi, 090° E · 11k acres

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