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We would like to provide the residents of  Highland Park  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Highland Park Home page. The Highland Park Home page provides as much information as possible on Highland Park. Knowing Highland Park’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Highland Park’s Home page, you will also find Highland Park’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Highland Park has a population of 29596. 48.1% of Highland Park’s inhabitants are Male, and 51.9 are female. 68.2% of Highland Park is married and 83.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $534,967, and the average rent is $1,666. Household median income in Highland Park is $147,067, and the individual median income is $65,132. Highland Park’s Ethnic is the following: White(89.6%), Hispanic(8.9%), Multiple(3.7%), Other(3%), Asian(2.9%), Black(0.8%).


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 1847, two German immigrants, John Hettinger and John Peterman founded a town along Lake Michigan, which they called St.


John's. Soon, the town was abandoned, due to questions regarding ownership of the land. Three years later, another German Immigrant, Jacob Clinton Bloom, founded Port Clinton, which happened to be just south of St. John's. Port Clinton was described by Elijah Middlebrook Haines as "one of the most promising villages in the city".


In 1854, a lighthouse was built in Port Clinton, thanks to funding by the US Congress and sponsorships from Illinois representatives. Despite having a functioning lighthouse with a keeper, a pier, sawmill, and a plank road, Port Clinton did not have a train station in 1855. In 1860, Port Clinton stopped growing as a town, and the lighthouse was shut down.In 1867, ten men purchased Highland Park for $39,198.70.


They were the original stockholders of the Highland Park Building Company. Following construction of the Chicago and Milwaukee Railroad, a depot was established at Highland Park and a plat, extending south to Central Avenue, was laid out in 1856. At that point, Highland Park was settled on mostly scattered farms and undeveloped forested land.


Highland Park was established as a city on March 11, 1869, with a population of 500, and evolved from the two settlements of St. John and Port Clinton; St. John's Avenue and Port Clinton Square are named after the settlements. Highland Park was named from its parklike setting at a lofty elevation relative to the lake, and was given its name from Walter S.


Gurnee. The town annexed the village of Ravinia in 1899. From its establishment in 1869 until November 1, 1900, Highland Park was a "dry" community, in which the sale of alcoholic drinks was prohibited.In 2013, Highland Park passed an ordinance banning assault weapons within the city. In 2015, the U.S.


Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit upheld the ban, and later that year, the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the ruling to stand.On July 4, 2022, a mass shooting occurred at a Fourth of July parade in Highland Park, killing seven people and injuring dozens more. A suspect was apprehended hours later and charged with first-degree murder.


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