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Sportspeople from Lake Forest, Illinois (19 P) Pages in category "People from Lake Forest, Illinois" The following 88 pages are in this category, out of 88 total.
Edward J. Brundage, Illinois Attorney General; Fredrik Herman Gade, mayor of Lake Forest; diplomat from Norway; Charles B. Farwell, United States Senator from Illinois (1887–1891) and member of the United States House of Representatives (1871–1876, 1881–1883), cofounder of the Onwentsia Club, owner of XIT Ranch
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 ...
People from Lake Forest, Illinois (1 C, 88 P) Pages in category "Lake Forest, Illinois" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total.
Watts, an Australian rules footballer who served as a warrant officer and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1943, was shot down by enemy fire on 31 May 1944. He managed to hide in a Belgian pine forest for six weeks until he was captured. He spent more than a year as a German prisoner of war at Stalag Luft III. [151] Found alive ...
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 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]
1893 – World's Columbian Exposition cold storage warehouse fire in Chicago, Illinois on July 10, killed 18. 1894 – Christmas Eve fire in Silver Lake, Oregon, on December 24, killed 43 people including 19 women and children. [4] 1895 – The Rotunda, University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.