Highwood, Illinois

Highwood is a city in Moraine Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States.

History
The Potawatomi people lived in the area until the 1833 Treaty of Chicago. Given the dry nature of most towns between Evanston and Kenosha, Highwood enjoyed a high per capita number of bars and taverns.

Highwood was the location of the headquarters of the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad, a defunct railroad whose North Shore Line ran parallel to the Chicago and North Western Railway's trackage now know today as Metra's Union Pacific/North line. This defunct railroad once carried over 28 million passengers in a single year during World War Two.