Changing The World Author F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote that he thought Lake Forest “the most glamorous place in the world.” Due to the wide scope of influence of so many that have called these towns home, Lake For...
Newcomers From their beginnings, Lake Forest and Lake Bluff have been marked by people willing to try someplace new. Paleo-Indians built camps in the Skokie Valley, a transition point between wetland and woodla...
Cooler By The Lake From bluff to forest, the lake forms the backbone of these communities, and tells a big part of their story. Situated on America’s “third coast,” Chicago’s Lake Michigan border spurred the dev...
Nature By Design In 1857, Almerin Hotchkiss created a town plan for Lake Forest – curvilinear, park-like, embracing the ravines and unique terrain – that made it one of the first large-scale designed suburbs in th...
Making It Home Life in Lake Forest and Lake Bluff begins at home – architectural masterworks and converted coach-houses, homes with gates or in subdivisions, behind winding drives or in dormitories, homes with lon...
Getting Here The stories of Lake Forest and Lake Bluff begin with pathways. The receding of the glaciers thousands of years ago created a unique network of ridges, rivers and ravines, navigated by early peoples pa...
