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LaSalle Lake State Fish and Wildlife Area; Lake Le-Aqua-Na State Park; Lincoln Lake near Coal City; Lake Linden in Lindenhurst; Lake Petersburg, Menard County; Little Grassy Lake (reservoir), Jackson and Williamson Counties; Little Swan Lake (reservoir), near Avon, Fulton County; Long Lake; Loon Lake (East and West), Lake County; Lake Lou ...
Lake Carroll is a private man-made recreational lake located in Carroll County, Illinois. It was formed in 1974 by the damming of the east fork of the Plum River near the town of Lanark, Illinois. The earthen dam [2] is owned and operated by the Lake Carroll Association. [3] It is the largest private lake in the state of Illinois.
Carlyle Lake is a 25,000-acre (101.2 km 2) reservoir largely located in Clinton County, Illinois, United States, with smaller portions of the lake within Bond and Fayette counties. It is the largest man-made lake in Illinois, and the largest lake wholly contained within the state.
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Lake Decatur is a 2,800-acre (11 km 2) reservoir located in the city of Decatur, Illinois, USA, east of downtown. The city and lake both share the name of U.S. Navy Commodore Stephen Decatur . The lake is 613 feet (187 m) above sea level and has a watershed of 925 square miles (2,400 km 2 ) or 592,000 acres (240,000 ha) reaching into parts of ...
Later acquisitions were added to the property and have increased the area which was known as Wolf Lake Conservation Area. In 1965, the Illinois General Assembly named the area after William W. Powers. [1] Powers had been a Chicago alderman on the Chicago City Council and Illinois General Assembly legislator in the 1920s, and used the site for ...
Lake Charleston is a reservoir in Coles County, Illinois. [1] Served by Illinois Route 130, it is 2 miles (3 km) southeast of the Illinois city of Charleston. [2] Much of the lake is surrounded by city parkland, and a lakeside circular trail is 3.6 miles (6.0 km) in length. Power boats are allowed, but the lake enforces a no-wake rule.
The oldest section of Peoria, the largest city on the river, lies at its shores. From a modern perspective, the lake runs from just south of the McClugage Bridge (US 24/US 150/War Memorial Drive) to the Murray Baker Bridge (Interstate 74). The larger Upper Peoria Lake flows into the lake on its north side, at approximately river mile 166.5. [1]