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Lake Forest

American  

noun

  1. a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.


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Ben Zwief, an adviser in Lake Forest, Ill., cites the example of a client with $50,000 in credit-card debt at a 20% interest rate.

From MarketWatch Jul. 2, 2026

In a separate incident in Lake Forest, the mother of a 14-year-old was charged after her son allegedly crashed into an 81-year-old man in April as the boy was doing wheelies on his e-motorcycle.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 10, 2026

Fink and Koh met on the first day of their freshman year at Lake Forest Academy in the Chicago suburbs.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 11, 2026

David Wick, an English and Latin teacher at Lake Forest, said Koh seemed “more excited about his business ventures than about Latin.”

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 11, 2026

After all, neither one of us was dressed for an appearance in Lake Forest, after what we’d been through the day before and then spending the night inside Cade’s sweatbox of a camper shell.

From "100 Sideways Miles" by Andrew Smith

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