Lincolnshire is a village in Vernon Township, Lake County, in the U.S.
state of Illinois. The village is a northern suburb of Chicago. The
population of Lincolnshire was 7,275 at the 2010 census. Lincolnshire
was incorporated on August 5, 1957, from the unincorporated Half Day
area when land was purchased to build a residential subdivision. The
community underwent an aggressive era of expansion from 1983 to the
1990s. The Des Plaines River bisects the village, passing from north
to south; Illinois Route 22 also divides the village into two parts,
crossing the village from east to west.Lincolnshire is home to the
award-winning public Adlai E. Stevenson High School, as well as Laura
B. Sprague and Half Day elementary schools and Daniel Wright Junior
High School which compose Lincolnshire-Prairie View School District
103. Many global corporations are located in Lincolnshire, including
Aon Hewitt, Zebra Technologies, CDW, and Sysmex, generating a daytime
population of over 20,000 people. The Village of Lincolnshire and
other entities host several popular annual events, including Fourth of
July celebration, Art Festival, Heroes Night, and Boo Bash. The
Village maintains a Police Department that closely collaborates with
its local school districts. Lincolnshire manages a public works system
at the direct expense of the village; it retrieves all of its water
from the city of Highland Park, which derives its water from adjacent
Lake Michigan. The village has a councilâ€"manager government and is a
home-rule municipality. The mayor of Lincolnshire is Elizabeth J.
Brandt.Lincolnshire is home to the award-winning public Adlai E.
Stevenson High School, as well as Laura B. Sprague and Half Day
elementary schools and Daniel Wright Junior High School which compose
Lincolnshire-Prairie View School District 103. Many global
corporations are located in Lincolnshire, including Aon Hewitt, Zebra
Technologies, CDW, and Sysmex, generating a daytime population of over
20,000 people. The Village of Lincolnshire and other entities host
several popular annual events, including Fourth of July celebration,
Art Festival, Heroes Night, and Boo Bash. The Village maintains a
Police Department that closely collaborates with its local school
districts. Lincolnshire manages a public works system at the direct
expense of the village; it retrieves all of its water from the city of
Highland Park, which derives its water from adjacent Lake Michigan.
The village has a councilâ€"manager government and is a home-rule
municipality. The mayor of Lincolnshire is Elizabeth J. Brandt.The
first inhabitants of what would become the village of Lincolnshire
were Native American Potawatomi migrants from Canada and Wisconsin.
The tribesmen left these northern places in the 16th century in search
of a warmer, more temperate climate. The first Europeans to visit the
area were the French Jesuit explorers Father Jacques Marquette and
Louis Jolliet. Shortly after arriving in 1673 at the site of what
later became Waukegan, they sailed down the Des Plaines River and made
contact with the local Potawatomi, who would dominate the area by
1768. One of the Potawatomi villages that they encountered stretched
along the west bank of the Des Plaines River, from what later became
Illinois Route 22 south to Aptakisic Road, the first real settlement
in the Lincolnshire and Half Day region.The Lincolnshire area was
originally a part of the town of Half Day, the first region settled by
non-Native American peoples in Lake County. The first white settler in
the Lincolnshire area was Captain Daniel Wright, who arrived in 1834.
Chief Halfda allowed Wright to build his cabin at the south end of the
Potawatomi village at the site of the intersection of present-day
Milwaukee Avenue and Aptakisic Road. The Potawatomi tribesmen were
ousted a year later in the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, which was
implemented two years after its ratification, and faced relocation. Lincolnshire, Illinois Top Movies & Young Movies