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Roughly bounded by Western, Westleigh, Lake Michigan, and N city limits, Lake Forest, Illinois Coordinates 42°15′03″N 87°49′40″W / 42.25083°N 87.82778°W / 42.25083; -87
Michael Yore's cabin in West Lake Forest, 1918. Saint Patrick's Catholic Church was founded around 1844, [3] however, its church cemetery, Saint Patrick's Church Cemetery, was consecrated several years earlier in 1840, [4] with land from Yore and the bodies of sailors from a nearby shipwreck. Over time, it would become the main cemetery for the ...
Lake Forest was founded with Lake Forest College and was laid out as a town in 1857, a stop for travelers making their way south to Chicago. The Lake Forest City Hall, designed by Charles Sumner Frost, was completed in 1898. It originally housed the fire department, the Lake Forest Library, and city offices. [4]
Location of Lake County in Illinois. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lake County, Illinois. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
Originally known as the Green Bay Addition, the neighborhood was planned in 1907 as the equivalent of a company town for the service workers at Lake Forest's many estates. Lake Forest was a popular home for the Chicago area's most wealthy residents in the early twentieth century, who typically built large estates that required teams of support ...
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 ...
Market Square is a 103,000-square-foot (9,600 m 2) [1] neighborhood shopping center [2] in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States, in the Chicago metropolitan area. Opened in 1916, it is often cited as the first planned shopping center in the United States, with common design and management and designated area for parking automobiles. [3] [4]
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 .