Lake Forest
Lake Forest is an idyllic suburb in the North Shore region of Illinois. An integral part of Chicago's ritzy North Shore suburban area, Lake Forest is true to its name and reputation.Photo: Teemu08, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Town with 19,400 residents
- Description: city in Lake County, Illinois, United States
- Also known as: “City of Lake Forest”, “Lake Forest, IL”, and “Lake Forest, Illinois”
- Postal code: 60045
- Neighbors: Highland Park
Places of Interest
Highlights include Lake Forest station and Onwentsia Club.
Lake Forest station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Forest is a railroad station in Lake Forest, Illinois, served by Metra's Union Pacific North Line. The station, located at 691 North Western Avenue, is 28.3 miles away from Ogilvie Transportation Center, the inbound terminus of the Union Pacific North Line, and also serves commuters who travel north to Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Onwentsia Club
Golf course
Onwentsia Club is an 18-hole golf course in the central United States, located in Lake Forest, Illinois, a suburb north of Chicago.
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital
Hospital
Photo: Hullingera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Northwestern Lake Forest Hospital is a community-based hospital in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Northwestern Memorial Healthcare, one of the nation's premiere academic medical centers.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lake Bluff.
Lake Bluff
Village
Photo: Teemu08, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Bluff is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. Per the 2020 census, the population was 5,616.
Lake Forest
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Shields Township, Lake, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
42.2586° or 42° 15′ 31″ northLongitude
-87.8407° or 87° 50′ 27″ westPopulation
19,400Elevation
689 feet (210 metres)United Nations Location Code
US LFROpen location code
86JJ7555+FPOpenStreetMap ID
node 153360517OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Lake Forest” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليك فورست”
- Armenian: “Լեյք Ֆոտեսթ”
- Azerbaijani: “Leyk-Forest”
- Basque: “Lake Forest”
- Catalan: “Lake Forest”
- Cebuano: “Lake Forest”
- Chechen: “Лейк-Форест”
- Chinese: “Lake Forest”
- Chinese: “森林湖”
- Chinese: “萊克福雷斯特”
- Croatian: “Lake Forest”
- Czech: “Lake Forest”
- Dagbani: “Lake Forest”
- Danish: “Lake Forest”
- Dutch: “Lake Forest”
- French: “Lake Forest”
- Galician: “Lake Forest”
- German: “Lake Forest”
- Gilaki: “لیک فؤرست (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “لیک فؤرست”
- Greek: “Λέικ Φόρεστ”
- Haitian: “Lake Forest, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Lake Forest”
- Hebrew: “לייק פורסט, אילינוי”
- Hungarian: “Lake Forest”
- Ido: “Lake Forest, Illinois”
- Ido: “Lake Forest”
- Irish: “Lake Forest”
- Italian: “Lake Forest”
- Japanese: “レイク・フォレスト”
- Japanese: “レイクフォレスト”
- Korean: “레이크포리스트”
- Ladin: “Lake Forest”
- Luxembourgish: “Lake Forest”
- Mazanderani: “لیک فورست (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “لیک فورست”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Lake Forest”
- Newari: “लेक फरेस्ट, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “लेक फरेस्ट”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lake Forest”
- Norwegian: “Lake Forest”
- Persian: “لیک فورست، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “لیک فورست”
- Polish: “Lake Forest”
- Portuguese: “Lake Forest”
- Romanian: “Lake Forest, Illinois”
- Romanian: “Lake Forest”
- Russian: “Лейк-Форест (Иллинойс)”
- Russian: “Лейк-Форест”
- Serbian: “Лејк Форест”
- Serbian: “Лејк Форист”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Forest, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lake Forest”
- Silesian: “Lake Forest”
- Slovak: “Lake Forest”
- Slovenian: “Lake Forest”
- South Azerbaijani: “لیک فورست، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Lake Forest (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Lake Forest”
- Swedish: “Lake Forest, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Lake Forest”
- Tatar: “Лейк-Форест”
- Turkish: “Lake Forest, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Lake Forest”
- Ukrainian: “Лейк-Форест”
- Urdu: “لیک فارسٹ، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “لیک فوریسٹ، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “لیک فوریسٹ”
- Uzbek: “Lake Forest”
- Uzbek: “Лаке Форест”
- Vietnamese: “Lake Forest, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Lake Forest”
- Volapük: “Lake Forest”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lake Forest, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Lake Forest”
- Welsh: “Lake Forest, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Lake Forest”
- “Lake Forest”
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