One day in Springfield, Illinois, United States

A day through Springfield, Illinois’s best-known sights that lie close together: Old State Capitol State Historic Site, Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices State Historic Site, Lincoln Home National Historic Site, Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception and Cathedral Church of St. Paul. 5 stops, about 0.9 mi between them in straight lines; the streets make it longer.

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  1. Old State Capitol State Historic SiteMuseum · On the map
  2. Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices State Historic SitePark · 0.1 mi on from Old State Capitol State Historic Site · On the map
  3. Lincoln Home National Historic SiteMuseum · 0.2 mi on from Lincoln-Herndon Law Offices State Historic Site · On the map
  4. Cathedral of the Immaculate ConceptionCathedral · 0.3 mi on from Lincoln Home National Historic Site · On the map
  5. Cathedral Church of St. PaulCathedral · 0.3 mi on from Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception · On the map

5 stops, 1.2 mi on foot along the streets: about 24 min of walking.

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Good to know

  • Each day starts at the best-known place not yet seen and adds the best known within a short walk of it, then puts them in the shortest order. The places come from Wikidata (CC0), ranked by how many Wikipedias have an article about them.
  • The map draws each day’s walk along the streets, routed by Valhalla on OpenStreetMap; the distances beside the stops are straight lines.
  • Opening hours, tickets and closures are not checked: each place’s Wikipedia article has them.

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