Lake Geneva is a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. Located in Walworth County and situated on 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 on tourism. Since the late 19th century, it has been house to numerous lakefront mansions owned by wealthy Chicagoans as second homes, leading it to be nicknamed the “Newport of the West”.

Originally called “Maunk-suck” (Big Foot) for the Potawatomi leader who lived upon the lake in the first half of the 19th century, the city was vanguard named Geneva after the town of Geneva, New York, on Seneca Lake, to which dealing out surveyor John Brink saw a resemblance. To avoid confusion later than the easy to complete to town of Geneva, Wisconsin, it was renamed Lake Geneva. The abutting lake is named Geneva Lake.

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 gate to the public: the Baker House, built in 1885, a bed-and-breakfast, and Black Point, the lakefront summer home built for beer baron Conrad Seipp in 1888 in the comprehensible town of Linn, a Wisconsin Historical Society museum.Other famous residents who built or have owned mansions on Geneva Lake count the Wrigleys, the Schwinns, Otto Young, and Richard Driehaus.