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Nearby Glencoe has steep slope ordinances in place while Highland Park, Lake Forest, Kenilworth and Lake Bluff have required buffer zones preventing construction too close to bluffs.
The main trail of Ravine Park. Lake Bluff is located in the North Shore area at (42.281, -87 [5]A New Year's Day moonrise over Lake Michigan. According to the 2010 census, Lake Bluff has a total area of 4.057 square miles (10.51 km 2), of which 4.05 square miles (10.49 km 2) (or 99.83%) is land and 0.007 square miles (0.02 km 2) (or 0.17%) is water. [6]
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 ...
Lake Bluff, Illinois was first settled in 1836. In the mid-1870s, the Lake Bluff Camp Meeting Association, a Methodist Episcopal camp, was founded on 200 acres (81 ha). Most structures at that point were of contemporary architectural styles, but were mostly one-story wood-frame buildings.
Shields Township is a township in Lake County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census , its population was 39,062. [ 2 ] The Naval Station Great Lakes is located in this township.
Ravine Park is a community park located in Lake Bluff, Illinois.Measuring roughly 14 acres (5.7 ha) in area, it is dominated by a ravine formed by an ephemeral stream that flows after heavy rainfall and consists of a series of muddy ponds otherwise.
The William McCormick Blair Estate is a historic estate at 982 Sheridan Road in Lake Bluff, Illinois.The estate was built in 1926-28 for financier William McCormick Blair, who was one of the many wealthy and prominent Chicagoans to build an estate in Lake Bluff in the early twentieth century.
The Lester Armour House is a historic mansion in Lake Bluff, Illinois, United States. It was designed by David Adler in 1931 and is considered one of his most pure works as well as one of his largest.