Not familiar with Highland Park- is this a crap area or a somewhat decent area of Chitcago?
Household income average is 147,000 per year. Pretty wealthy area.
Politics & Voting in Highland Park, Illinois
The Political Climate in Highland Park, IL is Somewhat liberal.
Lake County, IL is Strongly liberal. In Lake County, IL 60.8% of the people voted Democrat in the last presidential election, 36.8% voted for the Republican Party, and the remaining 2.4% voted Independent.
In the last Presidential election, Lake county remained overwhelmingly Democratic, 60.8% to 36.8%.
Lake county voted Democratic in the four most recent Presidential elections, after 2000 and 2004 went Republican"
https://www.bestplaces.net/voting/city/illinois/highland_park
"ABOUT
In 2019, Highland Park, IL had a population of 29.6k people with a median age of 47.1 and a median household income of $150,269. Between 2018 and 2019 the population of Highland Park, IL declined from 29,731 to 29,628, a −0.346% decrease and its median household income grew from $147,962 to $150,269, a 1.56% increase.
The 5 largest ethnic groups in Highland Park, IL are White (Non-Hispanic) (85.9%), White (Hispanic) (4.8%), Asian (Non-Hispanic) (2.87%), Other (Hispanic) (2.81%), and Two+ (Non-Hispanic) (2.42%). 0% of the households in Highland Park, IL speak a non-English language at home as their primary language.
95.9% of the residents in Highland Park, IL are U.S. citizens.
In 2019, the median property value in Highland Park, IL was $584,500, and the homeownership rate was 82.1%. Most people in Highland Park, IL drove alone to work, and the average commute time was 28 minutes. The average car ownership in Highland Park, IL was 2 cars per household."
https://datausa.io/profile/geo/highland-park-il
"Religion in Highland Park, Illinois
54.4% of the people in Highland Park are religious (less than Chicago metro area at 57.6% and the entire state of IL at 55.7%):
- 1.9% are Baptist
- 0.8% are Episcopalian
- 31.0% are Catholic
- 3.2% are Lutheran
- 1.5% are Methodist
- 0.6% are Pentecostal
- 1.6% are Presbyterian
- 0.5% are Church of Jesus Christ
- 8.9% are another Christian faith
- 2.7% are Judaism
- 0.1% are an eastern faith
- 1.4% affilitates with Islam"
https://www.bestplaces.net/religion/city/illinois/highland_park
So basically, looks like an "affluent" white liberal community with likely declining religious affiliation.
Highland Park is in Lake County. Not in Cook County...
It is an affluent community north of Chicago...
Ravinia outdoor concerts every summer there...It is next to Chicago Botanic Garden.
Sad this happened because it is a very nice area.
Neither. Highland Park is where very wealthy, predominately white liberals live. Plenty of 1 to 2 million dollar homes, and condos for $500,000. 84% white, less than 1% black, very low crime, 61% voted for Joe Biden in 2020.