Highland Park, Illinois

Highland Park is a city located in Lake County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 31,365. Highland Park is one of several towns on the North Shore of Chicago characterized by its affluence and its large Jewish population.

Notable People

Highland Park is the current home of former Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan and basketball superstar Michael Jordan. It is popular with many Chicago Bulls and Bears players due to its proximity to the team's practice facilities in nearby Deerfield and Lake Forest, respectively.

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Smashing Pumpkins - Billy Corgan - Basketball - Michael Jordan

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It is also where Elisha Gray invented and first demonstrated the telephone in 1874 (his house, still standing, is a large white 2-story 2 doors east of the City Hall on Hazel Avenue).

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Elisha Gray - Telephone - 1874

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Several writers have grown up in Highland Park.

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Author and Academy Award winning screenwriter William Goldman author Peter Orner ("Ester Stories").

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Academy Award - William Goldman

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Poet and Guggenheim Fellow Susan Firestone-Hahn, David Seltzer,

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Actors-

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Gary Sinise, Jeff Perry, Robert Reed

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Gary Sinise - Robert Reed

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Broadcast/Journalists-

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Eric Engberg, Brian Ross, Stephen Glass

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Military-

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General Follett Bradley,

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General Terry Allen,

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General Mark Clark,

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Admiral Stansfield Turner, Director of the CIA

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Stansfield Turner - Director of the CIA

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Education-

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Dr. Graham Spanier, President, Penn State University

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Astronaut-

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Dr. John Grunsfeld

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Womens Advocate-

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Karen Nussbaum

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Highland Park was also the home of Ted Kord, A.K.A. the superhero, Blue Beetle.

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Superhero - Blue Beetle

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