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Lake Forest is a city located in Lake County, Illinois, United States.Per the 2020 census, the population was 19,367. [3] The city is along the shore of Lake Michigan, and is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the North Shore.
West Lake Forest is a neighborhood in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. Originally a smaller Irish rural community known as Everett, in the latter half of the 20th century, it became a suburban neighborhood.
Fort Sheridan is a residential neighborhood within the cities of Lake Forest, Highwood, and Highland Park [1] in Lake County, Illinois, United States. It was originally established as Fort Sheridan , an Army post named after Civil War cavalry general Philip Sheridan , [ 2 ] to honor his services to Chicago .
The district is primarily residential, though it also includes three educational institutions and two significant commercial districts. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lake Forest became a popular suburb for the Chicago area's wealthiest residents, and many prominent Chicago businesspeople built their homes in the town.
The Green Bay Road Historic District is a residential historic district in Lake Forest, Illinois. Centered on Green Bay Road, a historic postal and military road that once connected Chicago with Green Bay, Wisconsin, the district includes 147 contributing buildings. The houses in the district are mainly country estates built in the late ...
Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [1] One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore ...
Forest Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Ela Township of Lake County, Illinois, United States. It is about 35 miles (56 km) northwest of downtown Chicago. Per the 2020 census, the population was 1,784. [2] The community was founded in 1935 as a vacation community for Chicago residents.
Lake Forest is a railroad station in Lake Forest, Illinois, served by Metra's Union Pacific North Line.The station, located at 691 North Western Avenue, is 28.3 miles (45.5 km) away from Ogilvie Transportation Center, the inbound terminus of the Union Pacific North Line, [2] and also serves commuters who travel north to Kenosha, Wisconsin.