Lincolnshire is a village in Vernon Township, Lake County, in the U.S. state of Illinois. The village is a northern suburb of Chicago. Per the 2020 census, the population was 7,940. Lincolnshire was incorporated upon August 5, 1957, from the unincorporated Half Day Place when house was purchased to construct a residential subdivision. The community underwent an brusque era of take forward from 1983 to the 1990s. The Des Plaines River bisects the village, passing from north to south; Illinois Route 22 afterward divides the village into two parts, crossing the village from east to west.

Lincolnshire is home to the award-winning public Adlai E. Stevenson High School, as with ease as Laura B. Sprague and Half Day elementary schools and Daniel Wright Junior High School which compose Lincolnshire-Prairie View School District 103. Many global corporations are located in Lincolnshire, including Aon Hewitt, Zebra Technologies, CDW, and Sysmex, generating a daytime population of greater than 20,000 people. The Village of Lincolnshire and other entities host several popular annual events, including Fourth of July celebration, Art Festival, Heroes Night, and Boo Bash. The Village maintains a Police Department that contiguously collaborates later its local assistant professor districts. Lincolnshire manages a public works system at the take in hand expense of the village; it retrieves whatever of its water from the city of Highland Park, which derives its water from next Lake Michigan. The village has a council–manager processing and is a home-rule municipality. The mayor of Lincolnshire is Elizabeth J. Brandt.

The first inhabitants of what would become the village of Lincolnshire were Native American Potawatomi migrants from Canada and Wisconsin. The tribesmen left these northern places in the 16th century in search of a warmer, more self-denying climate. The first Europeans to visit the Place were the French Jesuit explorers Father Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet. Shortly after arriving in 1673 at the site of what innovative became Waukegan, they sailed next to the Des Plaines River and made admission with the local Potawatomi, who would dominate the area by 1768. One of the Potawatomi villages that they encountered stretched along the west bank of the Des Plaines River, from what later became Illinois Route 22 south to Aptakisic Road, the first real settlement in the Lincolnshire and Half Day region.

The Lincolnshire area was originally a allocation of the town of Half Day, the first region settled by non-Native American peoples in Lake County. The first white settler in the Lincolnshire area was Captain Daniel Wright, who arrived in 1834. Chief Halfda allowed Wright to construct his cabin at the south grow less of the Potawatomi village at the site of the intersection of present-day Milwaukee Avenue and Aptakisic Road. The Potawatomi tribesmen were ousted and faced relocation through the 1833 Treaty of Chicago, which was ratified in 1835 and thereafter implemented.