| Highland Park
is a city in the Moraine Township of Lake County, Illinois,
United States. The population was 31,365 at the 2000
census. Highland Park is one of several affluent towns
on the North Shore of Chicago. Highland Park's original
name was Port Clinton, Illinois.
Highland Park has several attractions
including a downtown shopping district and Ravinia Festival,
the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and
a nightly music program covering classical, blues, jazz,
and rock. Highland Park is also home to the upscale
lifestyle center, Renaissance Place. The center is home
to one of the three Saks Fifth Avenue locations in Illinois.
The Ravinia Festival is located
in the Ravinia District, an area in the southern part
of Highland Park that was incorporated as the Village
of Ravinia before being annexed to Highland Park in
1899. The Ravinia District was originally an artists'
colony, and still retains much of its early character
and architecture. Highland Park has several landmark
structures listed in the National Register of Historic
Places, notably the Willits House by Frank Lloyd Wright.
Highland Park has been filmed
in, or been a setting of, several movies including Ordinary
People, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Risky Business, Weird
Science, Lucas, Kicking and Screaming, Sixteen Candles,
Home Alone, and Shattered Glass.
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