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Elm Place School is a grammar school established in the early Highland Park.

In 2012, Elm Place School, is a public middle school in the North Shore School District 112.

The Flute and Fiddle Club was primarily an orchestra. Its conductor and director was Everett L. Millard beginning in 1929. Occasionally, the orchestra would do programs in conjunction with the North Shore Choral Society.

The Flute and Fiddle Club began in 1929 under the guidance of Everett L. Millard. Millard was a well-trained music proficient who studied in both the United States and Germany. His home, a log cabin in Highland Park, Illinois, served the rehearsal space and often times the performance location for the orchestra. Millard led the Flute and Fiddle Club as conductor of until his retirement in 1953, conducting the full string and brass orchestra. Beginning in 1950, a group of board members also assisted the Club. The board helped design the year's set list, planned holiday parties, organized, and advertised the Club's performances. They gave suggestions for what should be played and kept track of who was volunteering to play and sing at the various events. They were an asset to Millard; and after his retirement, fully took over the preparation and direction of the Club.

Millard also led the Chamber Symphony Orchestra and the North Shore Musicians, who gave concerts at various locations twice a year, during his Flute and Fiddle Club tenure. Both music ensembles began in 1929, and lay claims be the oldest community orchestras in the Chicago area. Millard's home also doubled as a performance venue.

Before becoming conductor of Highland Parks' music groups, Millard actively participated on various boards and societies in Highland Park. He is originally from Highland Park, and attended grade school at the North Shore Country Day School after it opened up in 1919. He continued his education at Philips Academy Andover Massachusetts and then moved onto four years of Harvard University's chemistry program. During his studies at Harvard, Millard traveled to Vienna, Austria, to study music. Upon his return to the United States, Millard joined the Navy and was an officer in New York when he met his wife in 1945. Marry and Everett married in 1946 and had four children: "Skeets" Hyde, "Corky" Mary Cordelia, "Liza" Ann Eliza, and "Penny" Olivia Penniman. He raised his children in the same log cabin built by his grandfather in whiche grew. father. His home was not just the practice and occasional performance space for his orchestras but also his work place.

Millard was a publisher, writer, editor, general contractor, and licensed real estate broker with an outside office located in Chicago. He was also an active member of the Federalist movement, board member of the East Park Board, chairman of the City Beautification Committee, and an officer on the board of the Highland Park Hospital Foundation. In his spare time, Millard enjoyed being with his family and attending the high school's Glee Club events, where as a student, his long courtship with music began.

Chamberlin, born in 1910 in Berrien Springs, Michigan moved to Highland Park, Illinois with his family in 1951. He was active in Trinity Episcopal Church, local schools and Scouts.

Chamberlin held the unique distinction of law degrees from both Northwestern (J.D. 1934 ) and Yale Universities (LL. M. 1935) . He began his career as a government lawyer in Washington D.C., including serving as assistant general counsel for the National War Labor Board and general counsel for the National Housing Agency. In World War II, he served in the first airborne division of the United States Army's 8th Air Force

Chamberlin specialized in labor relations as a lawyer in Chicago. He served as chair of the American Bar Association Labor Law Committee, 1952-55, and taught at DePaul Law School.

In 1947, he married Celeste Wentcher. They raised 3 sons together in Highland Park, Illinois.

Established by Marla Forbes in 1996; the Highland Park Opera Studio brought classic opera to the North Shore suburbs at a modest price. The Opera Studio's articulated mission was "to produce high quality, creatively narrated and edited opera, in an intimate and convenient North Shore location." The organization produced a variety of programs in local theaters and school auditoriums, including Fra Noi, Madam Butterfly, Traviata, Die Fledermaus, The Magic Flute, La Bohème, the Barber of Seville, and the Marriage of Figaro. The organization's named evolved to Opera Theater of Highland Park. The name changed to Opera Theater North in 2004.

Originally described as an “upstart crow” in comparison to the other local opera houses in the area, the Highland Park Opera Studio partnered with the Lyric Opera House of Chicago, the Highland Park Cultural Arts Commission, schools, and other local businesses to champion the support and education of the fine arts in Highland Park and environs. The Highland Park Community House served as performance location for the first 5 years, later expanding to other venues such as the North Shore Center for Performing Arts in Skokie and schools.

The Highland Park Building Company, led by resident manager Frank P Hawkins (also the first mayor of Highland Park), was created on May 29, 1867 when a group of business men purchased land from Walter S Gurnee with intent of creating a fashionable community "of means and taste*." Other members of the Company included Cornelius R Field (sales), William French (engineer), Horace Cleveland (landscape architect), and the Reverend William Wallace Events. The Company chartered special trains from Chicago to the North Shore to hold grand sales events on lots and present plans for Gothic and Italianate Victorian homes. The Company purchased the Highland Park Hotel and renamed it the Central Hotel in 1867 also.

The Highland Park Building Company took an active role in community planning and development to attract home owners. They built the (former) Highland Park train depot. The Company financed the first public school in Highland Park, the Port Clinton Avenue School, and established Highland Hall, a girls finishing school. Additionally, the Company provided funds for Baptist and Methodist Churches.

*Pioneer to Commuter : the Story of Highland Park/ by Marvyn Wittelle 1958, p. 41.

Part of the Lyric Opera Chapters Community, "In a Lyric Opera Chapter, opera lovers of all ages get together to enjoy lectures, musical performances, events, volunteer opportunities, and each other's company. Each Chapter is chartered with the dual purpose of providing educational programs in their communities and raising money to support community-engagement and educational programs at Lyric Opera of Chicago." (www.lyricopera.org)