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LakeForest was laid out in 1857 and settled immediately after, before the Civil War (1861-1865).
When LakeForest outgrew the 1862 wood-frame church under pastor James McClure (president of the College, 1897-1901), the present church was built from the "spotted" stones of the Pre-Chicago-Fire (1871) Second Church.
But the founding LakeForesters' commitment to literacy for former slaves, whose earlier status in bondage had precluded such learning, is at the root of the town's public-education system, which was integrated from the start.
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