Best Family-Friendly Hotels in North Side

Three Attractions Worth Planning Around

Residence Inn by Marriott Chicago Deerfield rates 8.8 and builds every suite around a full kitchen, backed by free breakfast, an outdoor pool, a gym and a bar for parents once the kids are settled. Nine taxi-minutes from Chicago Botanic Garden and four to Scrambled for a family breakfast out, it suits a multi-night family stay better than a one-night stop, since the kitchen only pays off once a family actually cooks in it. The twenty-two-minute O'Hare run and one-hour-twelve-minute public transit option matter for families flying in rather than driving.

Motel 6 Glenview, IL - Chicago North sits two minutes' walk from Kohl Children's Museum, about as close as a budget stay gets to a headline family attraction on this corridor, at a 7.2 rating with free parking and pet-friendly rooms if the family dog is along too. The trade-off for that proximity is a simpler room than the Marriott or Hilton options elsewhere on this list, with no pool or kitchen, better suited to a museum day trip than a longer family vacation base with a full week of activities planned.

At a 7.2 rating, Extended Stay America Suites - Chicago - Woodfield Mall puts a kitchen and free breakfast within walking distance of Wood Library-Museum of Anesthesiology and Egg Harbor Cafe, four minutes on foot, built for families splitting time between Woodfield Mall's shopping and LEGOLAND Discovery Center's indoor play. The studio-style suites suit a family wanting to cook breakfast before a full day out rather than managing a sit-down meal with tired kids first thing, and the walkable stretch of shops nearby fills an evening once the kids are done with LEGOLAND for the day.

Comfort Inn & Suites Mundelein-Vernon Hills rounds out the family list at an 8.4 rating, an indoor pool, hot tub and kitchen-equipped rooms giving a family somewhere to swim regardless of the Illinois weather outside. Six taxi-minutes from Vernon Hills and thirty-two from O'Hare, it suits a family prioritizing a quieter, less office-park-dense pocket of the corridor over proximity to any single headline attraction, with the indoor pool doing most of the entertaining on a rainy or cold day when a drive to Glenview or Schaumburg feels like too much.

North Side's family appeal rests on three specific attractions rather than a broad kid-friendly reputation: Kohl Children's Museum in Glenview, Busse Woods near Elk Grove Village, and the LEGOLAND Discovery Center and Woodfield Mall cluster in Schaumburg. A family picking a base here should pick the town nearest whichever of those three matters most, since driving between them eats a meaningful chunk of a day trip. Glenview and Elk Grove Village suit museum-and-nature days, Schaumburg suits shopping-and-indoor-play days, and Deerfield sits in between, closer to golf and dining than to any specifically kid-focused attraction.