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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 busiest inland recreational waterway per acre in the ...
Chain O'Lakes State Park is a 2,793-acre (1,130 ha) Illinois state park at the inlet of the Fox River into the Chain O'Lakes in Lake and McHenry counties, in the suburban wildlife of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It is one of the centerpieces of the proposed Hackmatack National Wildlife Refuge.
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 ...
NRHP reference No. 79003785 [1] Added to NRHP. July 29, 1979. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mineola Hotel. The Mineola Hotel is a historic hotel located at 91 North Cora Street in Fox Lake, Illinois. The hotel is located on the western shore of Fox Lake, one of the lakes which forms the Chain O'Lakes.
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.
William W. Powers State Recreation Area is an Illinois state park administered by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources on 580 acres (230 ha) in the Hegewisch community area of the City of Chicago in Cook County, Illinois, United States. [1] The area includes 419 acres (170 ha) of water in Wolf Lake that provides about 6 miles (10 km) of ...
Antioch is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,622. [5] The village is nestled into the Chain O'Lakes waterway system and borders the state of Wisconsin. Part of the Chicago metropolitan area, Antioch is located approximately halfway between the major cities of Chicago (60 miles south ...
The Chicago Portage National Historic Site is a National Historic Site commemorating the importance of the Chicago Portage in Lyons, Cook County, Illinois, United States.It is located in Chicago Portage Forest Preserve and the Ottawa Trail Woods Forest Preserve, at the junction of Portage Creek with the Des Plaines River, on the west side of Harlem Avenue on the line of 48th Street.