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McHenry Dam State Park was founded in 1939 with the purchase of 15 acres (6.1 ha) of land on the east bank of the river. Property on the west bank of the river was donated to the state Division of Water Resources in the early 1960s. In 1971, the state began to acquire land surrounding Lake Defiance, then constructed park facilities in 1975.
McHenry is a city in McHenry County, Illinois, United States.It is located about 55 miles northwest of Chicago.Per the 2020 census, the population was 27,135. [4] McHenry was at one time the county seat of McHenry County, which once included adjoining Lake County to the east.
Formerly a state park, it has been owned and maintained by the city of Cairo since the 1990s. The Illinois Department of Natural Resources assumed control of Fort Defiance on July 31, 2014, with the goal of returning it to state park status. [2] The park is a satellite of Horseshoe Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area.
Park Forest is a village located south of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States, with a small southern portion in Will County.The village was originally designed by Loebl Schlossman & Bennett as a planned community for veterans returning from World War II. [2]
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Apple Canyon Lake is a planned vacation community developed in the late 1960s by the Branigar Organization of Medinah, Illinois.Branigar had developed similar vacation home projects in Wisconsin: Dutch Hollow Lake and Lake Redstone where Branigar built a dam along a stream and then sold water front vacation lots.
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