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Lake Geneva is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Located in Walworth County and situated upon Geneva Lake, it was house to 8,277 people as of the 2020 census, up from 7,651 at the 2010 census. It is about 40 miles southwest of Milwaukee and 65 miles northwest of Chicago.

Given its relative proximity to the Chicago and Milwaukee metropolitan areas, Lake Geneva has become a popular resort city that thrives upon tourism. Since the late 19th century, it has been home to numerous lakefront mansions owned by rich Chicagoans as second homes, leading it to be nicknamed the “Newport of the West.”

Originally called “Maunk-suck” (Big Foot)” after the man who led the local band of the Potawatomi in the first half of the 19th century, the city was later named Geneva after the town of Geneva, New York, which government surveyor John Brink thought it resembled. To avoid confusion subsequent to the handy town of Geneva, Wisconsin, it was sophisticated renamed “Lake Geneva”.

After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, a number of rich and prominent Chicago industrialists fled to the shores of Geneva Lake—then a popular summer camp destination—by train. Many of the families built palatial summer homes on the lake, which led it to be nicknamed the “Newport of the West.” Lake Geneva remains a popular summer tourism destination for boating, water sports, and viewing the mansions, which can be seen from the public Geneva Lake Shore Path. Two historic Lake Geneva mansions are gain right of entry to to the public: the Baker House, built in 1885, now a bed-and-breakfast; and Black Point, the lakefront summer estate built for beer baron Conrad Seipp in 1888 in the nearby town of Linn, now a Wisconsin Historical Society museum. Other well-known residents who built or have owned mansions upon Geneva Lake insert the Wrigleys, the Schwinns, Otto Young, and Richard Driehaus.