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www.lakecountyil.gov Lake County is a county located in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Illinois , along the shores of Lake Michigan . As of the 2020 census , it has a population of 714,342, [ 1 ] making it the third-most populous county in Illinois .
The Lake County Forest Preserves is a government agency headquartered in Libertyville, Illinois, United States.As principal guardian of Lake County’s open space and natural areas since 1958, it sets the standard in nature and historic preservation, and in outdoor recreation and education. [1]
Dane County was renamed in 1840 to the current Christian County.; The original Knox County, Illinois, became extinct with the formation of the Illinois Territory in 1809 - or, more precisely, it became Knox County, Indiana.
Map of the Des Plaines River drainage basin. The Des Plaines River (/ d ɪ s ˈ p l eɪ n z / diss-PLAYNZ) is a river that flows southward for 133 miles (214 km) [2] through southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois [3] in the United States Midwest, eventually meeting the Kankakee River west of Channahon to form the Illinois River, a tributary of the Mississippi River.
Libertyville Township covers an area of 36.5 square miles (94.6 km 2); of this, 1.1 square miles (2.9 km 2) or 3.02 percent is water. [2] Lakes in this township include Big Bear Lake, [3] Butler Lake, [4] Harvey Lake, Liberty Lake, Little Bear Lake, [5] Minear Lake and West Lake.
Buffalo Grove is a village in Lake and Cook Counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.A suburb of Chicago, it lies about 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Downtown Chicago and 20 miles (32 km) north of O'Hare International Airport.
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Many credit Walter S. Gurnee as the father of the North Shore. [1] 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 ...