Libertyville, Illinois For other places titled Libertyville, see Libertyville .
Libertyville, Illinois Flag of Libertyville, Illinois Township Libertyville Libertyville is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States and an well-to-do suburb of Chicago.
The 2014 census populace was 20,512. (There is also a township of the same name, which includes the village and some encircling areas.) Located in northeastern Illinois, southwest of Waukegan and west of Lake Forest, its immediate neighbors are Mundelein to the west, Green Oaks, Mettawa, and Rondout to the east, Gurnee to the north, Grayslake to the northwest, and Vernon Hills to the south.
5.1 Libertyville District 70 5.4 Libertyville High School Libertyville is positioned at 42 17 03 N 87 57 38 WCoordinates: 42 17 03 N 87 57 38 W. Libertyville's chief street is Milwaukee Avenue (Illinois Route 21).
The same line is served by another Metra station at Prairie Crossing, near the boundary of Libertyville and Grayslake.
Parade balloon promoting The Goose Is Loose Festival in Libertyville The territory that is now Libertyville was the property of the Illinois River Potawatomi Indians until August 1829, when economic and resource pressures forced the tribe to sell much of their territory in northern Illinois to the U.S.
On April 16, 1837, the new postal service was registered under the name Libertyville.
When the governmental center of county moved to Little Fort (now Waukegan) in 1841, the name reverted to Libertyville, without further changes. Libertyville's most prominent building, the Cook Mansion, was assembled in 1879 by Ansel Brainerd Cook, very close to the spot where Vardin's cabin was assembled in the 1830s.
The improve expanded quickly with a spur of the Milwaukee Road train line (now a Metra commuter line) reaching Libertyville in 1881, resulting in the incorporation of the Village of Libertyville in 1882, with John Locke its first village president. Libertyville's downtown region was largely finished by fire in 1895, and the village board mandated brick to be used for ongoing standard , resulting in a village center whose architecture is substantially unified by both reconstructionand building material. The National Trust for Historic Preservation, which gave Libertyville a Great American Main Street Award, called the downtown "a place with its own sense of self, where citizens still stroll the streets on a Saturday evening, and where the tailor, the hometown bakery, and the vacuum cleaner repair shop are shoulder to shoulder with gourmet coffee vendors and a microbrewery." Samuel Insull, founder of Commonwealth Edison, began purchasing territory south of Libertyville in 1906.
He also bought the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric line (later the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee), which assembled a spur from Lake Bluff to Libertyville in 1903.
From 1970 until 2013, Libertyville was the resting place of the only European monarch buried on American soil, Peter II of Yugoslavia, who died in exile in Denver.
Libertyville is represented by Carol Calabresa on the Lake County Board. Libertyville District 70 Main article: Libertyville District 70 Libertyville proper has four enhance elementary schools and one enhance middle school, all comprising Libertyville District 70: Main article: Oak Grove School District 68 (Lake County, Illinois) Libertyville High School Main article: Libertyville High School Libertyville High School, part of Community High School District 128, serves students in Libertyville and other communities in Libertyville Township.
John's Lutheran School both furnish K-8 education to inhabitants of Libertyville and the encircling area.
8 Libertyville District 70 320 Libertyville is one of six communities comprising the Cook Memorial Public Library District.
The Cook Park library, positioned on Cook and Brainerd streets in Libertyville, is one of the District's two library facilities.
Cook's wife, Emily, deeded the property to the Village of Libertyville in 1920 for use as a library. In 1968, a 33,000-square-foot (3,100 m2) addition was added, adjoining to the Cook home.
The Libertyville Review, presented by Pioneer Press, covers Libertyville.
Regional newspapers that occasionally contain coverage of Libertyville include the Chicago Tribune, Daily Herald and Lake County News-Sun.
Libertyville has a station on Metra's North Central Service, which provides weekday rail service between Antioch, Illinois and Chicago (at Union Station).
The Libertyville waterworks comes from the Central Lake County Joint Action Water Agency (CLCJAWA) positioned in Lake Bluff.
Lakes: Lake Minear, Butler Lake, Independence Grove Libertyville Sunrise Rotary Libertyville Junior Woman's Club Libertyville Masonic Lodge #492-will jubilate its 150th anniversary in 2016 Libertyville HS Varsity Boys Soccer team won the 2015 IHSA Class AAA State Boys Soccer Championship.
Libertyville's run to the state title encompassed wins over SIMA FAB 50-ranked Evanston and Morton.
Libertyville has a youth football organization called the Libertyville Boys Club. This includes weight-based football travel teams.
This feeds into Libertyville High School, which has a dominant football program that makes regular appearances in the state playoffs and won the 2004 state championship.
The Libertyville Little League is a baseball league with a league for every age.
Libertyville has a travel team for each age as well, but they are not run by LLL.
Libertyville has a youth basketball league run by the Libertyville Sports Complex, which hosts many Libertyville affairs.
The Greater Libertyville Soccer Association (GLSA) is a prosperous organization in Libertyville that includes home and travel teams.
The Lake Shore Lynx is Libertyville's first semi-pro sports team.
Players from Libertyville High School have been a staple of this organization.
The Libertyville Ladycats (grades 5-8) is a girls' travel basketball team that feeds into LHS.
The Libertyville Warriors is a boy's travel lacrosse club based out of Libertyville and participates in competitions mostly in the Midwest.
In 2007, Libertyville was titled the 52nd best place to live in the U.S.
In 2013, CNN Travel titled Libertyville as one of America's best small town comebacks and CNNMoney.com listed Libertyville as one of the best places to live for the rich and single. Adlai Stevenson, Illinois governor, presidential candidate, ambassador, known as "The man from Libertyville" "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Libertyville village, Illinois".
Encyclopedia of Chicago: Libertyville, IL, chicagohistory.org.
Libertyville History, libertyville.com.
"Village of Libertyville CAFR" (PDF).
Motorola Mobility bids final adieu to longtime Libertyville home Danielle Gensburg, September 18, 2013: CNN cites Libertyville as top place to live for rich and single chicagotribune.com "David Adler's Libertyville Home", David Adler Center for Music and Art Marlon Brando in Libertyville "Exiled Yugoslavian Monarch Is Buried at Libertyville Monastery", by Diana Dretske, Daily Herald, August 11, 2009 "Marshall Hollingsworth goes from Libertyville to Major League Soccer's Columbus Crew".
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