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Lake Forest is a city known for its affluence, located in Lake County, Illinois, United States. The population was 20,059 at the 2000 census. The city is south of Waukegan, Illinois, on the shore of Lake Michigan, and is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the affluent North Shore. Lake Forest was founded around its college and laid out as a town in 1857 as a stop for travelers making their way south to Chicago. The headquarters of Tenneco, Brunswick, W.W. Grainger, Inc., and Hospira are in Lake Forest, and BFG Technologies is located in unincorporated Lake County.

The Chicago Bears training facility and headquarters, Halas Hall, opened in 1997 in west Lake Forest, and the Chicago Fire now train at the Bears' previous facility located on the campus of Lake Forest College. Robert Redford filmed Ordinary People, the story of a Lake Forest family, on location in 1980, and the movie went on to win Best Picture at the Academy Awards. Actor Vince Vaughn graduated from Lake Forest High School, as did author Dave Eggers and musician Andrew Bird.

Most Lake Forest residents attend Lake Forest School District 67 and Lake Forest High School. Lake Forest High School serves Lake Forest as well as neighboring Lake Bluff and Knollwood.

The Montessori School of Lake Forest and Forest Bluff School (in Lake Bluff)...

   
 
   
 
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both serve ages two through 14, and are both accredited by AMI (Association Montessori Internationale); the latter is nationally known from the writings of founder and former head Paula Polk Lillard, and is often cited as one of the leading Montessori schools in America. Lake Forest Academy, a boarding and day school on the west side of Lake Forest, is considered to be one of the best college preparatory and boarding schools in the Midwest, and attracts students from across the country and around the world.

Lake Forest Country Day School was recently lauded by Chicago Magazine for its use of technology in the classroom. East Lake Academy and the School of St. Mary are the two private, Catholic schools located in Lake Forest: East Lake Academy is a newer elementary school started in 2001, and the School of St. Mary was established in 1917 and is a Catholic institution in Lake Forest.

Lake Forest is notorious for its strong stance against commercial development. High property taxes have driven out many businesses, especially car dealerships, to neighboring Lake Bluff. Most notably, Lake Forest Sportscars, one of the only Ferarri dealerships in Illinois, moved from downtown to its current location on Waukegan Road in Lake Bluff, just across the street from Lake Forest. The McDonald's in West Lake Forest was approved only after significant appearance changes, giving it a "barn-like" appearance. There were plans for a Costco to be built on Illinois Route 60, near the Tri-State Tollway in 2005. However, these plans were canceled due to opposition from the city government, local citizens, and the Chicago Bears.

Lake Forest is famous in Chicago for its history of polo, being once the farthest-west establishment of the sport in the US. It was home to the "East-West clash of 1933" in which a team of "Westerners", today Midwesterners, challenged the best of the Eastern US polo teams, winning two of three matches. Box seats sold for $5.50 and the general public was admitted for $1.10. The Chicago press covered the match extensively, right down to the arrival of every horse and player, the color of the horseflesh and the color of the goalposts. The match was described as a "gleaming moment in American polo, if not the very zenith of the game in this country." Today, Lake Forest continues the tradition, and polo is played yearly throughout August. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby, Tom Buchanan's polo ponies are said to have been bred in Lake Forest.

 
   
 
 
Illinois Cities in Which We Have Performed Wedding Photography
Below is a partial list of cities in which we have performed wedding photography:
Addison
Alsip
Arlington Heights
Aurora
Barrington
Bartlett
Bensenville
Bloomingdale
Bolingbrook
Bridgeview
Chicago
Darien
DeKalb
Downers Grove
Elgin
Elk Grove Village
Elmhurst
Frankfort
Glen Ellyn
Glenview
Hinsdale
Joliet
Lake Forest
Lemont
Libertyville
Lisle
Lockport
Lombard
Long Grove
Mokena
Naperville
New Lenox
Oak Park
Oak Brook
Orland Park
Palos Hills
Plainfield
Rosemont
Schaumburg
St. Charles
Tinley Park
Villa Park
Warrenville
West Chicago
Wheaton
Willow Springs
Willowbrook
Winnetka
Woodridge
Worth
Lake Forest, Illinois
The town of Lake Forest, Illinois is one of our most favorite towns in which to capture wedding photography. The beautiful town of Lake Forest gives us many opportunities to perform our photojournalist wedding style as well as traditional wedding style of photography.

In addition to Lake Forest, other favorite towns we have enjoyed performing wedding photography in include: Chicago, Naperville, Lake Forest, Schaumburg, Oakbrook and Lombard.

 
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Specials for Lake Forest Weddings

We have several specials currently being offered for Lake Forest Weddings. See our pricing page for our current specials as well as pricing for:

  • Traditional Wedding Albums
  • Matted Wedding Albums
  • Coffee Table Books
  • Flush Mount Albums
  • High Resolution Digital Negatives
  • Prints in Color, Black & White, and Sepia
  • Digital Photo Albums
  • Musical Photo Show DVDs
  • Photo Composites
  • Special Effects

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