This Elegant Chicago Area Home is Surrounded By Groomed Gardens

Lake Forest, a leafy suburb that’s long been a haven for Chicago‘s wealthiest residents, is home to some of the Midwest’s most historic architecture and expensive real estate, including homes designed by noteworthy architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright and Howard Van Doren Shaw. The writer F. Scott Fitzgerald considered Lake Forest to be one of the most magical places in the world, and, so the stories go, it was a Shaw-designed home in the affluent community that inspired his…