{"id":34285,"count":1,"description":"Forrest is a village in Livingston County, Illinois, United States. The population was 1,225 at the 2000 census.\nForrest is located at 40\u00b045\u20320\u2033N 88\u00b024\u203236\u2033W\ufeff \/ \ufeff40.75\u00b0N 88.41\u00b0W\ufeff \/ 40.75; -88.41 (40.750018, -88.409992).\nAccording to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 0.6 square miles (1.6\u00a0km), all of it land.\nFounding and Naming of Forrest\nForrest was laid out on 11 December 1866 by Israel J. Krack (16 November 1816 \u2013 6 June 1900). Krack was born in Baltimore, Maryland. Both of his parents had come from Germany. He was briefly a teacher, lived in Indiana, and came to Livingston County in 1854. Krack was a farmer, notary public, grain dealer, and in later life an insurance agent. Krack was elected Illinois General Assembly in 1872 and became treasurer of Livingston County in 1878. Krack Street, which parallels the railroad, was named for the town\u2019s founder. When Forrest was established the Toledo Peoria and Western Railroad had already been in operation for...","link":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/tag\/forrest\/","name":"Forrest","slug":"forrest","taxonomy":"post_tag","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags\/34285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/post_tag"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skateboarding-lessons.com\/go\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?tags=34285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}