Cantigny is a 500-acre (2.0 km2) park in Wheaton, Illinois, 30 miles west of Chicago. It is the former estate of Joseph Medill and his grandson Colonel Robert R. McCormick, publishers of the Chicago Tribune, and is open to the public. Cantigny comprises expansive formal and informal gardens, a Georgian-style brick historic house, a military museum, visitor center with cafe, picnic grove with pavilion, outdoor playground, hiking paths and a 27-hole golf course with driving range, pro-shop and restaurant.
Cantigny, with its non-contiguous Youth Links Golf Course in the bottom right.
Ornamental onions and Russian sage flowers in late July along the Hawthorn Path. The Fountain Garden and Visitor Center are in the distance.
Permanent and temporary exhibits await visitors inside the First Division Museum at Cantigny.
Known for its annual flower displays, Cantigny grows purpleleaf cabbage, chrysanthemums and variegated sedge in this fall garden bed.
Wheaton is a city in and the county seat of DuPage County, Illinois, United States. It is located Milton and Winfield townships approximately 25 miles (40 km) west of Chicago. As of the 2020 census, Wheaton's population was 53,970, making it the 27th-most populous municipality in Illinois.
Downtown Wheaton (2022)
The Old DuPage County Courthouse
The present-day DuPage county court complex
Wheaton Center, from a pedestrian bridge over the Union Pacific Railroad tracks
