Lake Zurich, Illinois
Lake Zurich, Illinois Lakefront Promenade, Lake Zurich, IL, June 2009.jpg View of Lake Zurich from the downtown promenade Official name: Lake Zurich Location of Lake Zurich inside Illinois Location of Lake Zurich inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Commons:Lake Zurich, Illinois Lake Zurich is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States, a northwest suburb of Chicago.
The village is titled after a water body titled Lake Zurich which is completely positioned inside the village.
In 2015, personal finance website, Nerd - Wallet.com, rated Lake Zurich number one in Illinois for young families. In 2006, Lake Zurich was titled by Frommer's as one of the top hundred "Best Places to Raise Your Family" and by U.S.
In 2013, Lake Zurich accomplished nationwide recognition when Sandra Bullock's character in Gravity name-dropped the village as her character's hometown. Lake Zurich is positioned at 42 11 32 N 88 5 17 W (42.192324, -88.088098), with an altitude of 850 feet (260 m) above sea level.
According to the 2010 census, Lake Zurich has a total region of 7.187 square miles (18.61 km2), of which 6.77 square miles (17.53 km2) (or 94.2%) is territory and 0.417 square miles (1.08 km2) (or 5.8%) is water. In the village, the populace was spread out with 34.1% under the age of 18, 5.0% from 18 to 24, 34.1% from 25 to 44, 21.0% from 45 to 64, and 5.9% who were 65 years of age or older.
The region of Lake Zurich was first settled by European descendants in the 1830s.
The lake now known as Lake Zurich was once titled Cedar Lake in the 19th century. The village of Lake Zurich was incorporated on September 29, 1896.
Route 12) in 1922 and Half Day Road (Illinois Route 22) in 1927 established Lake Zurich as a convenient summer resort.
The now-defunct Palatine, Lake Zurich and Wauconda Railroad also served the community.
In 1988, a historic, landmark legal case in Illinois took place settling a dispute on Lake Zurich, thereby clarifying throughout Illinois property owners' rights on private lakes.
Lake Zurich Property Owners Association (123 Ill.
Dec 14, filed June 20, 1988) that each individual owner of the private (aka non-public) lake's bottom has the legal right to recreate over the surface waters of the entire private lake.
The High Court ruled that by ownership of a lake bottom land, each partial-lake-bottom owner of a private lake can not be prohibited from recreating on the surface waters that may be positioned above other owners' lake bottom properties.
This universal caused a small-town controversy when surroundingal authorities determined that assembly crews were dumping silt-laden water into the spring-fed Lake Zurich.
In order to compensate for the loss of traffic on Route 22, the village began a "downtown redevelopment" plan which would eventually turn into one of the most contentious battles in village history.
While the new village administration is legally bound to negotiate with Equity Services Group, the village has begun renting out previously-vacant downtown buildings to small-town businesses while the redevelopment plans are on hold for analysis.
As of 2004 Lake Zurich had acquired all the property intended to fulfill its downtown redevelopment project.
The village of Lake Zurich is headed by Village President Thomas Poynton, who was propel in 2013, and originally won a seat on the village board as Trustee in 2007.
Lake Zurich is the hometown of Sandra Bullock's character Dr.
Lake Zurich is also the hometown of Sam Holtz, the sixth-grader sports-picking prodigy who won first place in the 2015 ESPN NCAA Bracket Challenge, beating 11.57 million other submitted brackets and earning nationwide fame. Public schools are managed by the Lake Zurich Lake Zurich Community Unit School District 95.
A small section of east Lake Zurich is served by Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 and Consolidated High School District 125.
Until 2009, Charles Quentin Elementary School was also a school in the precinct open in Kildeer, right outside Lake Zurich that served students in Kildeer, parts of Deer Park and a small part of Lake Zurich, but it closed due to the small total number of students attending it; the school that takes students from the region now is Isaac Fox.
Lake Zurich Middle School South (takes students from Fox and Adams and took students from the former Quentin School) Lake Zurich Middle School North (takes students from Paine, Loomis and Whitney) Lake Zurich High School Non-Lake Zurich schools: "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Lake Zurich village, Illinois".
"Report: Lake Zurich is number one in Illinois for young families".
"Eminent domain battle squashed; Last owners accept Lake Zurich's offer".
"Lake Zurich Courier".
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Village of Lake Zurich official website Municipalities and communities of Lake County, Illinois, United States
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