About Highland Park

Highland Park is a suburban city located in the southeastern part of Lake County, Illinois, United States, about 25 miles (40 km) north of downtown Chicago. As of the 2019 population estimate, the population was 29,515. Highland Park is one of several municipalities located on the North Shore of the Chicago metropolitan area. == History == A traveler in the area in 1833 described visiting a village of bark-covered structures where he ate roasted corn with a chief named Nic-sa-mah at a site likely located south of present-day Clavey Road and east of the Edens Expressway.In the year 1847, two German immigrants, John Hettinger and John Peterman founded a town along Lake Michigan, which they called St. John's.