Worth the trip around Chicago
The places with the most to tell about. The numbers match the map.
Chicago is a lakefront list: 36 beaches, from 12th Street Beach at 3.9 km to Oak Street Beach and Ohio Street Beach, and 17 lighthouses, Chicago Harbor Lighthouse at 6.6 km plus the offshore cribs, Four Mile Crib Lighthouse, William E. Dever Crib Lighthouse, 68th Street Crib Lighthouse. Union Stock Yards Gate (1879) at 3.5 km is the one city gate, and the Ulysses S. Grant Monument and The Light of Truth Ida B. Wells National Monument head 34 monuments.
The two peaks are Mount Trashmore at 19.8 km and Players Hill at 10.1 km, and the viewpoints run from the South Overlook at 6.1 km to the Montrose Moonrise Observation Point at 12.2 km. Most of it lines the lakefront.
Each hexagon covers a little over 5 square kilometers. The brighter it glows, the more places are inside it. The numbers mark the highlights listed below; the dot in the middle is the center of Chicago.
Few places to many
The places with the most to tell about. The numbers match the map.
A selection for each type, best known first. The number next to each heading counts everything RLQuest knows within the radius.
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RLQuest knows these places too. Which means:
Some of your daily quests lead to a real place near you. The app uses your location to check you were really there.
If you're the first person in RLQuest to complete a quest at a place, it's your first find. The Place Book shows you which kinds of place you're still missing.
Every walk uncovers tiles, each about 350 m across. Over time you can see which corners you know well, and where you've never set foot.
Place data © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License. As of 2026-09-30. The list shows the places RLQuest knows and isn't complete. Photos come from Wikimedia Commons; author and license are credited on each photo.
