Explore Westlake, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Westlake, 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 Westlake.
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 | Westlake |
| State | Illinois (IL) |
| County | Will County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Central Time (America/Chicago) |
| Latitude | 41.620833 |
| Longitude | -88.156944 |
| Population | 1,493 |
| Density | N/A /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 60446 |
| Area Code | 708 |
| County Seat | Joliet |
Westlake occupies a quiet expanse of the Illinois prairie, where the horizon stretches wide and flat, punctuated only by the vertical geometry of grain silos and transmission towers. It lies 2.6 miles east-northeast of Plainfield, IL (from Plainfield, IL: bearing 71°T), and is situated 7.7 miles north-northwest of Joliet. The air here holds a crisp, continental weight, moving across the open fields with a steady persistence that catches the long, amber light of late afternoon. At the immediate edge of the property, Weslake Park provides a managed green space that serves as a terrestrial anchor, while the nearby banks of Lily Cache Creek trace a slow, meandering path through the silty earth just a mile away. Beyond the immediate development, the landscape retains a subtle, ancient stillness, with Lake Plainfield shimmering as a thin, silver sliver in the distance, reflecting the shifting gray and violet clouds that define the Midwestern sky.
Westlake grew from the steady, industrious pulse of the interior plains, where the economy was long shaped by the rhythmic demands of agriculture and the expansion of transit corridors that linked the interior to broader markets. Residents often find their way toward the Illinois and Michigan Canal State Trail, a ten-mile journey that connects the present-day pace of life to the labor-intensive history of canal-building and regional commerce. While the roar of modern logistics occasionally hums in the background, the character of the place remains grounded in the quiet endurance of those who work the land and the commute. Even with the encroaching suburban grid, the proximity of the Black Partridge Forest Preserve, eight miles out, offers a dense, shaded contrast to the manicured lawns and industrial zones that define the local footprint, reminding travelers that the wilder, wooded history of the region is never truly absent.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Westlake, Illinois. Coordinates: 41.620833, -88.156944. 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 Westlake includes the ZIP code (60446), telephone area code (708), county seat of Will County (Joliet), 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. |