3D ultrasound Wheeling
Featured city of the week of October 11 to October 16, 2010.

If you are from Wheeling, IL, and you are pregnant, congratulations! Your city is the featured city at First Peek Ultrasound. During this week, you can receive a FREE 3D ultrasound (First Peek Package, normally priced at $59).

If you live in the city that is featured and you are pregnant, all you have to do is call us, tell us that your city is featured as the city of the week, and we will book your appointment at an available time of your choice for any day this week. Or you can schedule online.

You must have a valid driver's license or library card of the featured city to qualify for the free 3d ultrasound.

If you would like to have your city or small town featured on our website, please email us at firstpeek@oakparkultrasound.com with the name of your town and what makes your town interesting.

List of other featured cities in the past.

Coming from Wheeling to get a 3D ultrasound?

First Peek Ultrasound is located around 40 minutes from Wheeling
in Oak Park, IL (23 miles). Our address is
    1100 Lake St., Suite 155
    Oak Park, IL 60301.
Contact Us

Map to First Peek Ultrasound at 1100 Lake St., Suite 155, Oak Park, IL 60301


Directions from Wheeling, IL
We are located just 15 minutes from downtown Chicago and around 40 minutes from Wheeling, IL.

When coming from Wheeling, just take Dundee Road east.
Turn right on Milwaukee Ave.
Turn left on Palatine Road.
Palatine Road will turn into Willow Road.
Merge onto I-294 South and continue on I-294S for about 10 miles.
Exit onto Irving Park Road going East.
Turn right on Des Plaines River Road (which may also be called River Road at this point).
Continue onto 1st Ave.
Turn left onto Lake Street until you pass Harlem Ave.
You will see the Shaker Building on your left-hand side. It is a large building with green awnings, located on Marion and Lake Street.


Location of First Peek Ultrasound, building with the green awnings

For Parking
Continue down Lake Street until you see the first traffic light, which is Marion Ave.
Make a left turn on Marion Ave. and make a left turn into the Holly Court parking lot immediately behind the building.
Go past the open parking lot and enter the parking structure.
Parking is free for the first hour in this parking structure. Parking is only $1 for the hour after that.
You can then enter the building via the back entrance.

Feel free to call us at 708-870-0808 for directions for your upcoming appointment at First Peek Ultrasound.
First Peek Ultrasound proudly serves Wheeling, IL. Come visit us and see for yourself why First Peek Ultrasound is Wheeling's favorite 3D ultrasound studio.


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Location of Wheeling, IL
Location of Wheeling in Illinois

Wheeling, IL, A Community of Choice, is a northwest suburb of Chicago that is located about 24 miles from downtown Chicago and 23 miles from First Peek Ultrasound, in Oak Park, IL, and it takes about 40 minutes to drive from Wheeling to Oak Park. The population was 38,555 according to the 2006 village census.

Wheeling in the 1800's
What Wheeling looked like in the days before the internet

Wheeling was not named after the wheeling of wagon wheels rolling down the village's riverside roads, but Wheeling was actually named after Wheeling, West Virginia, which itself was also not named after anything having to do with wheels but was named by the local Native Americans as "wih link" which means "place of the head," referring to, of course, a decapitated head of an early white settler left prominently on display in the area. It is unknown whether any decapitated heads were ever on display in Wheeling, IL (evidently a kinder version of Wheeling, WV).

Originally, Wheeling served as an overnight stop for Chicago travelers heading to the Wisconsin Territory. A number of taverns, inns, and eateries were established, in what has been nicknamed Restaurant Row, during the 1830s. By 1836, Milwaukee Avenue, then known as Des Plaines Valley Road, had become a stagecoach route between Chicago and Green Bay, Wisconsin. In the 1880s, the popular sport of bicycling prompted races between Wheeling and Chicago with as many as a hundred participants. The Wisconsin Central Railroad ran through the area in 1886. The Village of Wheeling was finally incorporated in 1894.

Chicago Executive Airport (Palwaukee Airport)
Chicago Executive Airport in Wheeling, IL (formerly Palwaukee Airport)

Chicago Executive Airport, formerly known as Palwaukee Municipal Airport, is a public airport located 18 miles northwest of Chicago, in the Village of Wheeling. This airport is owned jointly by the Prospect Heights and Wheeling. This airport logs over 167,000 take-offs and landings each year (mostly non-scheduled general aviation flights) and is the third busiest airport in Illinois (after O'Hare and Midway). The airport opened in 1925 as Gauthier's Flying Field. The airport was later named Pal-Waukee in 1928, which was derived from its location near the intersection of Palatine Road and Milwaukee Avenue. In 1986, the airport was purchased by Wheeling and Prospect Heights and was called Palwaukee Municipal Airport. On October 17, 2006, Palwaukee Municipal Airport was officially renamed Chicago Executive Airport.

National-Louis University (NLU) in Wheeling
Kindergarten started as a vision here in NLU

National–Louis University (NLU) is a private non-profit American university with campuses in Wheeling, IL, and elsewhere. NLU was founded in 1886 and has played a historic role in education. It helped found the National Kindergarten Movement, and the National Parent Teacher Association (PTA). National–Louis University began in 1886, when Elizabeth Harrison founded the school to train kindergarteners, young women teachers who began the early childhood education movement. The school's requirements became a model for education colleges nationwide. In 1893, the university published Harrison's book, The Kindergarten as an Influence in Modern Civilization, in which she explained, "how to teach the child from the beginning of his existence that all things are connected [and] how to lead him to this vital truth from his own observation..."