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The City of Lake Forest supports more than 80,000 residents and takes a proactive role in growing its existing businesses, attracting new businesses, and encouraging entrepreneurialism.  Lake Forest’s thriving business community, beautiful parks, and engaged community all contribute to the continued growth of the City and make Lake Forest a great place to live, work, and play.

Mission Statement

The City of Lake Forest is committed to ensure an optimal quality of life for its community by providing innovative, effective, and efficient services.

Vision Statement

Lake Forest will continue to be a safe, attractive, and healthy community in which to live, worship, work, and play. Our diverse community will foster the active involvement of its citizenry and businesses, and reflect a distinctive, suburban identity that relies upon an established image of lakes, creeks, forests, and open space.

Our Values

• A community where people feel safe and can realize a higher quality of life.
• Diversity, strength, and stability in the Lake Forest economy.
• A circulation system that meets local and regional needs.
• Dialogue with the community on current issues and those issues that challenge the future.
• Recreational and cultural opportunities and facilities for the community.
• Continual improvement of services and operations while maintaining a fiscally conservative approach to managing resources.
• Integrity and high ethical standards in what we do and how we do it.
• Unique characteristics, aesthetics, and histories of the neighborhoods and communities of Lake Forest.
• Leadership on issues that affect Lake Forest.
• Using creativity, innovation, and evolving technology