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is a city in Chisago County, Minnesota, United States, located 35 miles northeast of the Twin Cities. The population was 3,015 at the 2000 census. Lindström's slogan is "America's Little Sweden". U.S. Route 8 serves as a main arterial route for the community.
Daniel Lindström left Sweden in 1853 in search of a place to find a nice piece of land to settle in America. Lindström was incorporated 41 years later, in 1894. There were many other Swedish Emigrants who traveled with Daniel including Erik Norelius, whose personal journals documented in part, formed the basis of Vilhelm Moberg’s novels of the Swedish emigration to the United States,
. Moberg had two main characters in his novels, Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson. His novels depict the hardships that Swedish Emigrants had when traveling to America. A bronze statue of the author, holding his bicycle as if ready to ride away, stands on a stepped platform in Chisago City’s town park. Karl Oskar and Kristina remain the City of Lindström’s logo still today. Since 1990, anyone who has taken U.S. Route 8 from north of Forest Lake to Lindstrom has driven on the Moberg Trail.
The City of Lindström celebrates Karl Oskar and Kristina annually by having "Karl-Oskar Days". This event takes place mid-July and there are many activities including the Coronation for "Karl-Oskar Princess", parades, a street dance and fireworks. There is still a statue of Karl-Oskar and Kristina in Lindström as a tribute to these early Swedish descendants who continue to populate the area. These statues dedicated to famous Swedish settlers, such as Vilhelm Moberg's Karl-Oskar and Kristina are the main hot spots to tourists from all over the world who come to Lindström because of its Swedish heritage.