Highland Park

Highland Park has several attractions including a downtown shopping district and Ravinia Festival, the summer home of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and a nightly music program covering classical, blues, jazz, and rock.

The Ravinia Festival is located in the Ravinia District, an area inthe southern part of Highland Park that was incorporated as the Villageof Ravinia before being annexed to Highland Park in 1899. The RaviniaDistrict was originally an artists' colony, and still retains much ofits early character and architecture.

Highland Park has several landmark structures listed in the National Register of Historic Places, notably the Willits House by Frank Lloyd Wright.

Highland Park has been filmed in, or been a setting of, several movies including Ordinary People, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Risky Business, Weird Science, Lucas, Kicking and Screaming, Sixteen Candles, Home Alone, and Shattered Glass. It also was the setting for the 2000/2001 Fox and PBS documentary show American High.

Highland Park is also the international headquarters of the Solo Cup Company.