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Lake Bluff is a village in Lake County, Illinois, a North Shore community named for the prominent bluff that overlooks Lake Michigan along its eastern edge.

Lake Bluff had a population of 5,616 at the 2020 census, in 1,972 households.

The village is wealthy even by North Shore standards, with a median household income of $174,444 recorded in the 2020 census.

The first settler family, John and Catherine Cloes, claimed 100 acres stretching from the lake west to the Green Bay Trail in 1836, and the Dwyer family soon ran a stagecoach stop and tavern on the trail.

When Lake County's first railroad was completed in 1855, landowner Henry Ostrander donated the depot site on the condition it be called "Rockland" - and Rockland was the only station stop between Highland Park and Waukegan.

In 1875 a group of Methodist ministers bought 100 lakefront acres and formed the Lake Bluff Camp Meeting Association, renaming the settlement Lake Bluff and turning it into a summer religious resort colony.

Camp Meeting lots were just 25 feet wide, with cottages that could be built within 20 days of purchase for $250; the first hotel, the Bluff Lodge, opened in 1876, and by the mid-1880s the village had more than 30 hotels and boarding houses and a tabernacle seating over 2,000.

Lake Bluff incorporated as a village on September 21, 1895.

During World War I, Lake Bluff was proclaimed the "most patriotic small town in America" for its Red Cross work and for purchasing an ambulance to send to France.

Roughly half of Lake Bluff's land is devoted to parks and recreation, including Blair Park, Ravine Park, Sunrise Park, and Artesian Park around the 10-acre Artesian Lake.