Oak Park, Illinois
- Settled in 1833 and incorporated in 1901
- Situated in Cook County, nine miles west of downtown Chicago
- Named after an oak forest that it had displaced
Ernest Hemingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois and spent the first eighteen years of his life residing there.
The address of his birthplace home was 439 N. Oak Park Avenue (later changed to 339). Ernest Hemingway's birthplace
home is currently owned by The Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park.
In 1906, the Hemingway family moved to a new home at 600 N. Kenilworth Avenue. This home has the distinction of being designed by Hemingway's mother, Grace.
Ernest Hemingway supposedly once described Oak Park as a place of "wide lawns and narrow minds." A source for this quotation has never been found. Other famous residents of Oak Park, Illinois include:
Bob Newhart (born there)
Ray Kroc (born there)
Frank Lloyd Wright (lived there)
Edgar Rice Burroughs (raised there)
Betty White (born there)
