Lake Forest, Illinois
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Lake Forest is a city in Lake County, Illinois, United States, 31 miles north of downtown Chicago. The population was 19,367 at the 2020 census. The city is along the shore of Lake Michigan, and is pa
Lake Forest City Hall
Market Square
Former Marshall Field's at Market Square; closed as of January 2008
Entrance to department store on Market Square, documenting name change; closed as of January 2008
Lake Forest College
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Lake Forest College is a private liberal arts college in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States. Founded in 1857 as Lind University by a group of Presbyterian ministers, the college has been coeducation
Lake Forest, Illinois
…census. The city is along the shore of Lake Michigan, and is part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the North Shore. 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…
Brown Hall, the tallest building in the city of Lake Forest, houses most of the humanities departments on campus
Lake Forest College campus in winter, circa 1915.
Law Department, Class of 1895
Durand Art Institute on North Campus houses the departments of Art and Philosophy