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Grays Lake contains approximately 112 million US gallons (420,000 m 3) of water covering approximately 80 acres (320,000 m 2).Water depth is approximately 18 feet (5.5 m) [3] at its deepest point and averages 4 feet (1.2 m) deep.
Grayslake is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. The village's population at the 2020 census was 21,248. [ 3 ] It is located in the Chicago metropolitan area , about 40 miles (64 km) north of Chicago's downtown , 14 miles (23 km) west of Lake Michigan , and 15 miles (24 km) south of the Wisconsin border.
Wildwood is an unincorporated community along Belvidere Road (Illinois Route 120) just east of U.S. Route 45 in Lake County, Illinois.Wildwood is part of the Gages Lake census-designated place and is bordered by Gages Lake Road to the north, Gurnee to the northeast and east, Libertyville to the south, and Grayslake to the west.
The land that is now Libertyville was the property of the Illinois River Potawatomi Indians until August 1829, when economic and resource pressures forced the tribe to sell much of their land in northern Illinois to the U.S. government for $12,000 cash, an additional $12,000 in goods, plus an annual delivery of 50 barrels of salt. [13]
The Col. William H. Fulkerson Farmstead, also known as Hazel Dell, is a historic farm located at 1510 North State Street (U.S. Route 67) 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north of Jerseyville, Illinois. The 58.26 acres (23.58 ha) farm includes an Italian Villa style farmhouse, a carriage house , a barn, grain fields, and fruit orchards.
Illinois Route 83 (IL 83) is a 91.73-mile-long (147.63 km) major north–south state highway in northeast Illinois. It stretches from U.S. Route 30 (US 30, Lincoln Highway ) by Lynwood and Dyer, Indiana , north to the Wisconsin border by Antioch at Wisconsin Highway 83 (WIS 83).
The University of Illinois Experimental Dairy Farm was established as a National Register of Historic Places historic district on February 4, 1994. The nomination form to the National Register of Historic Places was dated December 22, 1993 and completed by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency (IHPA).
Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [2] One of the earliest known monographs to be devoted to the North Shore, The Book of the North Shore (1910), and its companion volume, The Second Book of the North Shore (1911), were written by Marian A. White, whose husband J. Harrison White had established a weekly newspaper in Rogers Park in 1895 called the North Shore ...