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Coordinates: 42°24′N 88°8′W. Chain O'Lakes map. The Chain O'Lakes, or simply "The Chain", is a waterway system in northeast Illinois composed of 15 lakes connected by the Fox River and man-made channels. Encompassing more than 7,100 acres (29 km 2) of water, 488 miles (785 km) of shoreline and 45 miles (72 km) of river, the Chain is the ...
Chain O'Lakes. The Fox River is a 202-mile-long (325 km) [1] tributary of the Illinois River, flowing from southeastern Wisconsin to Ottawa, Illinois in the United States. The Wisconsin section was known as the Pishtaka River in the 19th century. [4] There is another Fox River in Wisconsin that flows through Lake Winnebago into Green Bay.
Fox Lake is located at (42.4032677, -88.1828850), [2] 55 miles (89 km) northwest of downtown Chicago and 20 miles (32 km) west of Waukegan, Illinois The village center is located on the east shore of Pistakee Lake, and south shore of Nippersink Lake and Fox Lake, three connected water bodies that form part of the Chain O'Lakes system, flowing ...
The Fox River is a river in eastern Wisconsin in the Great Lakes region of the United States. It is the principal tributary of Green Bay, and via the Bay, the largest tributary of Lake Michigan. The city of Green Bay, one of the first European settlements in the interior of North America, is on the river at its mouth on lower Green Bay.
Silver Springs State Fish and Wildlife Area is an Illinois state park on 1,350 acres (550 ha) in Kendall County, Illinois, United States. The park was established in the late 1960s and is named for the natural spring within its boundaries. The park has two artificial lakes and the Fox River flows through the northern end of the park.
Island Lake is a village in Lake and McHenry counties in the U.S. state of Illinois. Per the 2020 census , the population was 8,051. [ 3 ] The village surrounds Island Lake , a lake which contains a small island.
The Illinois River (Miami-Illinois: Inoka Siipiiwi[4]) is a principal tributary of the Mississippi River at approximately 273 miles (439 km) in length. Located in the U.S. state of Illinois, [5] the river has a drainage basin of 28,756.6 square miles (74,479 km 2). [6] The Illinois River begins with the confluence of the Des Plaines and ...
Nippersink Creek is a freshwater tributary that flows for 23 miles in the Illinois River / Fox River (Illinois River tributary) watershed, mostly in McHenry County, Illinois, within the Glacial Park Conservation Area, but also enters the Fox River / Chain O'Lakes area in Lake County, Illinois. [2] The creek is managed by the McHenry County ...