WayfarrowLincoln Square
Ghost town · Cook County, Illinois
Lincoln Square is a ghost town in Cook County, Illinois. It is one of 6 former communities in Cook County on the federal names register. That ranks the county 7th among the 78 Illinois counties with a vanished settlement on record.
The U.S. Geological Survey lists Lincoln Square as a historical populated place on the Chicago Loop topographic quadrangle: the name is no longer in official use for a community, whether the settlement was abandoned, absorbed into a neighbouring town or renamed. The recorded location is 41.9759° N, 87.6892° W.
Key facts
| USGS quadrangle | Chicago Loop |
|---|---|
| Elevation | 607 ft |
| Nearest living town | Lincolnwood, IL |
| Distance to it | 3 miles |
| GNIS feature ID | 1772746 |
| Coordinates | 41.97587, -87.68922 |
What's there now
Lincoln Square is no longer a community in its own right. The nearest living town is Lincolnwood, IL (population 13,179), about 3 miles away in a straight line, and the site sits at roughly 607 feet above sea level. Much of the land around former townsites is private; check access before you visit.
Nearby places
- Wilson Avenue Crib Lightlighthouse · Cook County · 5.1 mi
- William E. Dever Crib Lightlighthouse · Cook County · 5.6 mi
- Grosse Point Lightlighthouse · Cook County · 6.1 mi
- Chicago Harbor Southeast Guidewall Lightlighthouse · Cook County · 7.5 mi
- Chicago Harbor Lightlighthouse · Cook County · 7.8 mi
- Four Mile Crib Lightlighthouse · Cook County · 10.3 mi
- Stateway Gardensghost town · Cook County · 10.6 mi
- Robert Taylor Homesghost town · Cook County · 11.8 mi
- Technyghost town · Cook County · 11.9 mi
- 68th Street Crib Lightlighthouse · Cook County · 15.4 mi
- Mount Forestghost town · Cook County · 18.4 mi
- Irondaleghost town · Cook County · 20.8 mi
Questions
Where is Lincoln Square?
Lincoln Square is in Cook County, Illinois, at 41.9759, -87.6892.
How many ghost towns are in Cook County?
Cook County, Illinois has 6 ghost towns on record at Wayfarrow.
- USGS Geographic Names Information System (Domestic Names) — GNIS Domestic Names, feature record (public-domain)
- U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line and ACS — Census Gazetteer + ACS 5-year population (public-domain)
Facts marked "approximately" carry an uncertain date in the source. Text on this page is generated from the sources above; no encyclopedia prose is copied. Last updated 2026-11-05.