Illinois, Lake County
Where Highland Park's records are kept. Highland Park has its own parks department, police department and clerk's office; county and state offices keep its other public records.
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The cards below include Highland Park's own offices, along with State of Illinois offices; the Lake County offices are on our Lake County page. Use the category buttons to narrow the list.
City records
Official site of the City of Highland Park, Illinois, with City Hall at 1707 St. Johns Avenue: city departments, the city code, water billing, a public record portal and service requests.
Open official site City of Highland ParkPolice & jail
Highland Park Police Department at 1677 Old Deerfield Road: its structure and strategic plan, community programs such as vacant house checks and victim notification, and police records.
Open official site Highland Park Police DepartmentPolice & jail
The Police Records Division at 1677 Old Deerfield Road releases police and traffic accident reports on a Freedom of Information request; crash reports can also be bought online through LexisNexis.
Open official site Highland Park Police RecordsCity records
How to request City of Highland Park records under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, through the Assistant to the City Manager at City Hall, with the city's FOIA rules.
Open official site City of Highland Park FOIA RequestsCity records
The Highland Park City Clerk at City Hall issues liquor, raffle, vendor, tobacco and other city licenses, registers lobbyists and posts election and referendum information.
Open official site Highland Park City ClerkPolice & jail
FBI national most wanted criminals, search for Highland Park area subjects.
Open official site FBI Most WantedPolice & jail
Illinois' state prison agency, with links to the Individual in Custody Search, victim notification, wanted fugitives, sex offender information and Freedom of Information Act requests.
Open official site Illinois Department of CorrectionsVital records
Handles mailed requests for Illinois birth and death records, which take about 12 weeks; death records go only to people with a personal or property interest, and marriage copies come from county clerks.
Open official site Illinois Department of Public Health Division of Vital RecordsVital records
USAGov explains how to get certified copies of birth and death certificates, copies of marriage and divorce records, and replacements for lost or stolen government ID cards.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Copies of Vital Records and IDsCounty court
The federal judiciary's national index of district, bankruptcy and appellate court cases. Searching needs a free PACER account; pages cost $0.10, capped at $3 per document, with quarterly charges of $30 or less waived.
Open official site PACER Case LocatorFederal
USAGov sends you to your state's unclaimed property office, which holds most unclaimed money, and to federal searches for back wages, pensions, IRS refunds, savings bonds and deposits from failed banks.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Unclaimed MoneyVital records
The Social Security Administration explains survivor benefits, monthly payments to eligible relatives of workers who paid Social Security taxes before death, including who qualifies, possible amounts and when to report a death.
Open official site Social Security Survivor BenefitsPolice & jail
U.S. Department of Justice search of public sex offender registries from every state, territory and many tribes by name or ZIP code; address radius searches cover only states that send coordinates.
Open official site Dru Sjodin National Sex Offender Public WebsiteFederal
USAGov explains checking your registration through Can I Vote, which opens your state's election website, and advises doing it before the state deadline, which can be up to 30 days before an election.
Open official site USAGov Guide to Confirming Voter RegistrationCounty court
Federal judiciary guide to finding a case in PACER: search the court where it was filed for current data, or the nationwide PACER Case Locator, updated daily. A PACER account is required.
Open official site PACER Find a CaseState records
Illinois State Archives genealogy and historical records for Highland Park.
Open official site Highland Park Illinois Archives and GenealogyCounty court
Northern Illinois federal bankruptcy court with clerk's offices in Chicago and Rockford, open 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; the site links PACER, electronic filing, unclaimed funds, online payments and a volunteer attorney panel.
Open official site U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of IllinoisEverything else, organized
16 more Highland Park sources not listed above.
Local record guide
Local profile
Highland Park, a place of 30,176 people, is in Lake County, whose county seat is Waukegan. Court and property records sit with Lake County, and birth and death certificates come from the State of Illinois. Highland Park's own offices are in the cards above, and our Lake County page lists each county office.
Labor Department file
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division closed 11 investigations with a Highland Park address since fiscal 2005 and recorded $50,748 in back wages agreed for 87 workers. Snapshot of April 22, 2026; a case here is a finding by the Division, not a court judgment, and the city is the one written on the employer's record.
| Employer | Cases | Back wages | Workers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noth Shore Compassionate Care | 1 | $34,167 | 36 |
| Streamline Wireless, Inc. | 1 | $7,054 | 34 |
| Wireless Solutions of N.H. HP LLC. | 1 | $4,037 | 10 |
| Sushi Badaya, Inc. | 1 | $2,817 | 4 |
| Tarlyn Corporation, Inc. | 1 | $2,673 | 3 |
| Las Palmas of Highland Park Inc. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Highland Pop, Ltd. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Dirsmith Construction Company | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Jewish Council for Youth Services | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Sendirian Restaurants, LLC. | 1 | $0 | 0 |
| Highland Park Motor cars LLC | 1 | $0 | 0 |
Every employer whose address on the record is in Highland Park, by back wages agreed; 1 employer has a page of their own and open from the table, the rest show their whole record in this row. The Illinois wage theft records page ranks the whole state.
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Voter registration in Illinois is run by the Illinois State Board of Elections and local election officials. Its site lists the registration deadline, online voter registration, polling places and the local election office for Highland Park.
Deeds for property in Highland Park are recorded by the Lake County office that records deeds, and the county office that assesses property keeps the tax values. Our Lake County page lists the county offices.
Certified birth and death certificates for events in Illinois come from the state vital records office, Illinois Division of Vital Records. Its site lists who may order a copy, the fee and how to order.
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Use the city page when a record was created by a municipal police department or city office; use the county page for courts, deeds, vital records and jail custody.