Market Square (Lake Forest, Illinois)

Market Square is a 103,000-square-foot (9,600 m2)[1] neighborhood shopping center[2] in Lake Forest, Illinois, United States, in the Chicago metropolitan area.

[3][4] Although Country Club Plaza (1923) in Kansas City, Missouri is generally credited as the first suburban and the first regional shopping center designed to accommodate shoppers arriving by automobile,[5] Market Square was first with these features, but was neither suburban nor of "regional" size (400,000 sq.

[2] Market Square was built within an already defined central retail district, replacing prior development.

[6][7] Lake Forest resident Arthur T. Aldis championed the notion of replacing the dilapidated business district of the town, and engaged architect Howard Van Doren Shaw.

[3] In Illinois, the first major center to be developed after Market Square was Spanish Court (1928).