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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]
The Noble Judah Estate is a historic estate at 111 and 211 West Westminster Street in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. The estate was built from 1925 to 1928 for lawyer Noble Brandon Judah, his wife and National Cash Register heiress Dorothy Patterson, and their children. It includes a main house, a garden, a pool, and several small ...
Illinois Route 60 (IL 60) is a 17.22-mile-long (27.71 km) east–west state highway in Lake County, in northeastern Illinois. It connects the village of Volo at Illinois Route 120 (Belvidere Road) just east of Illinois Route 59 with the city of Lake Forest at U.S. Highway 41 (Skokie Highway).
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 ...
Separate jughandle ramps for traffic exiting onto IL 22; eastern terminus of IL 22: Lake Forest: 44.7: 71.9: IL 60 west (Kennedy Road) Eastern terminus of IL 60: 45.2: 72.7 — Deerpath Road: Lake Bluff: 47.5: 76.4: IL 176 (Rockland Road) Southbound traffic exits via Washington Avenue/Shagbark Road; northbound traffic exits via Skokie Valley ...
The area, like much of northern Illinois, was inhabited by the Powtawatomi tribe until 1836, when they were removed by the government. [2] One of the very first Irish settlers in the area was Michael Yore, [3] who built a log cabin near to the intersection of Telegraph and Old Mill Roads today in Lake Forest. [1]
The hotel functioned as an apartment hotel and served as a permanent home for many wealthy Lake Forest residents, particularly older ones who were unable to maintain private homes. The hotel's single front door and interior spaces were designed to resemble a large home or club rather than a multi-resident complex, separating it from many other ...
In 1946, IL 213 was renumbered IL 171, still connecting IL 4A in Summit to US 34 in Lyons. This is the first appearance of the modern IL 171. [ 2 ] In the mid-1960s, as part of the construction of the new Stevenson Expressway , IL 171 was upgraded to a freeway between Summit and Lyons, including its interchange with I-55.