Crime Scene and Trauma Cleanup in Willoughby, OH

Willoughby is a city in Lake County, Ohio, along the Chagrin River and a suburb of Cleveland, known by the motto "The Courtesy City."

Willoughby's first permanent settler was David Abbott, who arrived in 1798 and operated a gristmill on the river.

The village was permanently named Willoughby in 1835 in honor of Dr. Westel Willoughby Jr., a public health official whom the founders of a short-lived medical college in town hoped to attract to the area.

Willoughby is the only town in America that has belonged, at one time or another, to six different counties: Washington, Jefferson, Trumbull, Geauga, Cuyahoga and Lake.

During World War I, the U.S. Army chose Willoughby as the site of a chemical weapons plant that produced lewisite.

Willoughby had a population of 23,959 at the 2020 census.

The 2020 census counted 11,630 households in Willoughby, and about 41.2% of them were people living alone.

Downtown Willoughby preserves an outstanding collection of 19th-century architecture, and its Wes Point Park displays memorials honoring residents who served in every major U.S. military conflict.

Willoughby is home to Willoughby South High School, whose teams are the Rebels, and to the private Andrews Osborne Academy boarding school.

The News-Herald, Lake County's newspaper, has been headquartered in Willoughby since its inception.