Highland Park, Illinois Highland Park, Illinois Official name: City of Highland Park, Illinois Location of Highland Park inside Illinois Location of Highland Park inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Highland Park, Illinois Highland Park is an well-to-do suburban town/city in Lake County, Illinois, United States, about 25 miles (40 km) north of downtown Chicago.

As of the 2010 census, the populace was 29,763. Highland Park is one of a several municipalities positioned on the North Shore of the Chicago urbane area.

Highland Park was established in 1869 with a populace of 500, and evolved from two settlements: St.

John and Port Clinton. Highland Park was titled from its parklike setting at a lofty altitude relative to the lake. The town took in the village of Ravinia in 1899.

Highland Park has a several attractions including a vibrant downtown shopping precinct and the Ravinia Festival.

Highland Park has a several landmark structures listed in the National Register of Historic Places, prominently the Willits House by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Landscape architect Jens Jensen lived in Highland Park and designed a number of projects in the improve that are listed on the register.

There are two enhance beaches in Highland Park, Rosewood Beach and Park Avenue Beach (which also has a boating facility).

Highland Park is also home to the North Shore Yacht Club.

Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 12.2 square miles (31.7 km2), of which 12.2 square miles (31.6 km2) is territory and 0.039 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.27%, is water. Its geographic features include a 100-foot-high (30 m) bluff running along 6 miles (10 km) of Lake Michigan shoreline and deep, wooded ravines extending up to 1 mile (1.6 km) inland.

Highland Park is governed by the council-manager form of government.

Highland Park is considered a Democratic stronghold.

Highland Park voters overwhelmingly broke for Illinois Senator Barack Obama in the 2008 presidential election, choosing him over Arizona Senator John Mc - Cain 76.3%-23.1%.

Highland Park voters also tend to prefer Democrats in small-town competitions.

At the state level, Highland Park is a part of the 58th House District, represented by Scott Drury (D-Highwood), and the 29th Senate District, represented by Julie Morrison (D-Deerfield).

The global headquarters of the Solo Cup Company was formerly positioned in Highland Park, before relocating to neighboring Lake Forest in 2009.

The chief highway in Highland Park is US-41, which joins Chicago to Milwaukee.

Commuter rail is available at four Metra stations inside town/city borders (Braeside, Ravinia Park, Ravinia, and Highland Park), as well as two in close-by Highwood (Highwood and Fort Sheridan) on the Union Pacific/North Line, which begins in Chicago and terminates in Kenosha, Wisconsin.

Main article: List of citizens from Highland Park, Illinois Highland Park is prominent with experienced athletes, as the Chicago Bears practice facility is in close-by Lake Forest.

The most notable resident that has lived in Highland Park was Michael Jordan.

Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan presently resides in Highland Park, and owns a tea shop titled Madame Zuzu's.

Highland Park is the locale of the former home of the chief characters in the CBS drama The Good Wife. Highland Park was used for locale shots for a several movies written and directed by John Hughes in the 1980s including Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Weird Science, Sixteen Candles, Uncle Buck and Home Alone.

Other prominent films from the 1980s shot or partially set in Highland Park include Ordinary People, Risky Business, and Lucas.

Since 2000, Highland Park movies have encompassed Kicking & Screaming and Shattered Memories of Love.

In the film Shattered Glass, Stephen Glass, portrayed by actor Hayden Christensen, makes repeated reference to his family's residence in Highland Park as an indication of the high expectations they have on his career.

"Highland Park has the feel of a gated improve without the actual gates," writes Vanity Fair, and has a tradition of "very clever minds who left to strike gold in Hollywood." Township High School District 113 operates Highland Park High School, as well as "rival" Deerfield High School.

Highland Park High School Highland Park Public Library a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Highland Park city, Illinois".

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