Lake Forest College

At Lake Forest College, our students get a world-class education and the skills they need to succeed in life after college.

The roots of Lake Forest College can be found in the mid-1800′s when a group of Presbyterian ministers and leaders boarded a northbound train in Chicago. Their goal was to identify a suitable location to construct a new community. Lake Forest University, later renamed Lake Forest College, was founded in 1857.

The history of  Lake Forest College is mirrored in the campus and its surroundings. The range of architectural styles and the spacious park-like landscaping are the physical embodiment of the many distinct phases in the College’s life. This significant historical record has, for the first time, been published in book-length form in 30 Miles North: A History of Lake Forest College, Its Town, and Its City of Chicago.

By the 1880s Chicago’s population was approaching one million; waves of immigrants from Ireland, Germany, and elsewhere were fueling the engine that drove the western empire with native-born capitalists at the controls. Labor strikes began to disrupt civic harmony. The Haymarket Riot of 1886 galvanized many of the elite into relocating from Prairie Avenue in Chicago to Lake Forest. Early presidents—the Reverend Daniel Gregory (1878–86), the Reverend William C. Roberts (1886–92), and Dr. John M. Coulter (1893–96)—modernized the curriculum from the classics-based program of founding President Patterson into a balanced and expanded modern curriculum with majors and electives.

Library
The mission of the Lake Forest College Office of Library & Information Technology is to provide and facilitate the use of technology and information resources in support of the pursuit of academic excellence.

Courses Offered

• Undergraduate Programs
• Graduate Programs

Colleges & Schools

• Chicago-Kent College of Law
• The John Marshall Law School
• Loyola School of Law
• Vermont Law School
• Monterrey Institute of International Studies
• Sever Institute of Technology at Washington University (St. Louis)
• Medical Schools
• College of Pharmacy at Rosalind Franklin University

Contact Details
Lake Forest College
555 North Sheridan Road
Lake Forest, Illinois 60045
(847) 234-3100
Official Website: http://www.lakeforest.edu/