Historic buildings such as the City Hall grace Lake Forest's town center.

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Lake Forest

With sweeping vistas of Lake Michigan, lush green ravines and towering trees, Lake Forest remains a small community of wooded, winding gas-lit streets, elegant estates, manicured parks and gracious public buildings. Its residents enjoy a relaxed village atmosphere amidst serene, natural beauty.

Yet it is also a community concerned with creating and conserving its own cultural heritage, with a symphony orchestra, a thriving art league and architecturally significant homes whose character, age and beauty have earned them landmark status. Market Square was the first planned shopping center, and remains the shopping hub of the community.

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Lake Bluff

Lake Bluff's village green is at the heart of this pleasant community.

Perched on a bluff high above the lovely sandy shores of Lake Michigan, Lake Bluff has retained its unique village atmosphere throughout its growth from a summer resort in 1875 to today's popular suburban community. A relaxed lifestyle combines with the village's natural beauty, tranquil tree-lined streets, quaint business district and award-winning schools to attract growing families who are looking for a small town way of life less than an hour from Chicago.

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Deerfield

The thriving community of Deerfield retains its small-town atmosphere.

Deerfield is approximately 27 miles north of downtown Chicago. It combines the peace and quiet of a small suburban town with easy accessibility to the Chicago metropolitan area. The World Champion Chicago Bulls call Deerfield's Berto Center their official home practice facility. Deerfield has recently rebuilt its town center to provide the most up-to-date shopping facilities for its residents. Award-winning schools and friendly neighborhoods make Deerfield a wonderful place to live.

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Highland Park

These elegant Highland Park residences are just minutes from Lake Michigan.

Highland Park is geographically situated along five miles of beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline, just 26 miles north of downtown Chicago. It is a vigorous community that offers an unusual wealth of beautiful parks, recreation facilities, and individual centers for youth and seniors. Its lovely homes range in style from Frank Lloyd Wright to classic Victorian. A richness of history and culture come together in Highland Park's internationally acclaimed Ravinia Festival, where the world's great artists of music, dance, and theater perform each summer.

Highland Park also offers nationally and regionally honored schools, an impressive library, and churches and synagogues representing major religious denominations.

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Libertyville

Libertyville's acclaimed rose garden, Cook Park, in spring.

Great shopping, dining, professional services and corporate environments are waiting for you in historic Libertyville. Enjoy turn-of-the-century buildings along Milwaukee Avenue or relax among the roses in Cook Park. The Heritage Area of Libertyville is a decidedly different experience. Founded in the early 1830's and incorporated in 1882 with a population of 500, Libertyville has grown into a beautiful village with a current population nearing 20,000.

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Green Oaks

Spacious and tranquil, Green Oaks offers a variety of beautiful neighborhoods.

The Village of Green Oaks is dedicated to protecting "the opportunity to live in an open, countryside environment." Over 2,000 residents and 230 businesses find Green Oaks a wonderful place to live and work. From the beginning, Village ordinance has provided for a pattern of one, two, and five acre lot residential zoning and strict standards over environmentally sensitive lands. It was with foresight that William D. Shaw, the first president of the Village Board Trustees, stated in 1960 "the village is not prey for the selfish real estate interests bent on building shanty towns, but strives instead to be a community of high merit." The award-winning K-8 Oak Grove School serves the Green Oaks area.

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Grayslake

Grayslake's peaceful center belies the town's progressive character.

Grayslake prides itself on being "a progressive community with a small town atmosphere". Gray's Lake, a 78-acre recreational lake, is located within the corporate boundaries of the Village. As well as a thriving business community, both the College of Lake County and the Center for Economic Development, with their extensive personnel training and business services, are located in Grayslake. Another feature is the Lake County Fairgrounds, which host one of the most popular county fairs in the State of Illinois. The community is served by two excellent elementary school districts dedicated to providing quality education to Grayslake children, and by the High School Technology Campus.

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Gurnee

Gurnee offers a wide variety of housing, recreational and business opportunities.

Gurnee is a community that honors its past, enjoys a prosperous present, and plans for its future. The qualities that make the village of Gurnee an attractive hometown for families and businesses and a popular destination for tourists have their roots in a planning process that began decades ago. Two of the area's largest tourist attractions, Six Flags Great America and Gurnee Mills, contribute substantially to Gurnee's economic viability. A land-use plan, adopted early in the 1970s and updated in 1983 and 1990, has guided the development and growth of Gurnee. It calls for a community that integrates open space for quiet enjoyment or active recreation, a variety of businesses, and housing of every size and type--rental apartments, town homes and single-family dwellings. What surprises many newcomers to the Gurnee area is that, although it is one of the fastest-growing communities in northern Illinois, Gurnee retains a small-town atmosphere.

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Mettawa

Mettawa is a community of forest preserve, riding stables and large lots.

Preserving open space, both public and private, is Mettawa's goal. Publicly, 27 percent of its land is forest preserve. Privately, it is unique, with five-acre zoning broken only by a few smaller, grandfathered plots. All houses are single family. Incorporated in 1960, the village remains quiet and its population small.

Zoning permits horse ownership at the rate of one per acre, and one quarter of Mettawa's residents have stables on their land. Others house horses in semi-private stables around the community.

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