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Lindstrom is a city in Chisago County, Minnesota, about 35 miles northeast of the Twin Cities, whose official motto is "America's Little Sweden."

Lindstrom was settled predominantly by Swedish immigrants, beginning with Daniel Lindstrom, who left Sweden in 1853 and gave the town its name; the townsite was platted in 1880 and incorporated as a village on August 28, 1894, and as a city on April 9, 1908.

An image of Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson, the hero and heroine of Vilhelm Moberg's famous emigrant novels The Emigrants, serves as Lindstrom's city logo, and statues of the couple stand in town as a tribute to its Swedish settlers.

Lindstrom settler Eric Norelius kept personal journals that in part formed the basis of Moberg's novels about the Swedish emigration to the United States.

Since 1990, the stretch of U.S. Highway 8 running from north of Forest Lake to Lindstrom has been designated the Moberg Trail in honor of the author.

Lindstrom celebrates its heritage every mid-July with Karl Oskar Days, a festival featuring a parade, street dance, fireworks, and the coronation of Karl Oskar Ambassadors.

In April 2015, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton signed an executive order requiring the state to restore the umlauts over the "o" in Lindström on city-limit signs after the dots had been removed.

The population of Lindstrom was 4,888 at the 2020 census, up from just 395 people in 1900.

Lindstrom had 1,929 households at the 2020 census, and Census estimates put its median household income above $103,000, with roughly 83% of its homes owner-occupied.

Lindstrom's land is threaded with lakes, including North and South Lindstrom Lake, North and South Center Lake, and Kroon Lake, making it a well-known fishing destination.