Mc - Henry, Illinois Mc - Henry Mc - Henry The Mc - Henry Riverwalk County Mc - Henry Townships Mc - Henry Township, Nunda Township Location of Mc - Henry inside Illinois Location of Mc - Henry inside Illinois Wikimedia Commons: Mc - Henry, Illinois Mc - Henry is a town/city in Mc - Henry County, Illinois, United States.

Mc - Henry was at one time the governmental center of county of Mc - Henry County, which once encompassed adjoining Lake County to the east.

Mc - Henry took its name from Mc - Henry County, which was titled for Major William Mc - Henry, an Indian fighter. Mc - Henry is surrounded by natural lakes and streams, grassy moraine hills, gravel banks and shallow nutrient-rich peat bogs, remnants of receding glaciers from the last ice age.

In the 1830s various pioneer appeared in the region and created the foundation for Mc - Henry.

On August 4, 1875, the first copy of the town/city newspaper, the Mc - Henry Plaindealer, was presented by Jay Van Slyke. In 1880, the first bridge in Mc - Henry was assembled at Pearl Street. In 1985, the Mc - Henry Plaindealer became part of the Northwest Herald.

Mc - Henry is positioned 60 miles northwest of Chicago in northern Illinois on the Fox River.

According to the 2010 census, Mc - Henry has a total region of 15.175 square miles (39.30 km2), of which 14.74 square miles (38.18 km2) (or 97.13%) is territory and 0.435 square miles (1.13 km2) (or 2.87%) is water. Mc - Henry lies inside the Fox River Valley, and its downtown region is situated on that river which is how it earned the nickname "The Heart of the Fox". The town/city of Mc - Henry lies inside two townships: Mc - Henry Township and Nunda Township.

See the full article, List of mayors of Mc - Henry, Illinois The town/city council consists of delegates from the 7 town/city wards: Mc - Henry is home to Fiesta Days, a ten-day festival in the middle of the summer that includes music, parades, food, car shows, and more. Mc - Henry is home to Moraine Hills State Park which has many miles of hiking trails and joins to the Stratton Lock and Dam.

In addition to a several dozen town/city parks, the Prairie Trail a sub-section of the larger Grand Illinois Trail runs through the middle of the city. Major industrialized users including Medela, Follett School Solutions, Fabrik Industries, and Plaspros have positioned in the city's company parks.

Centegra Hospital - Mc - Henry provides emergency and in and out-patient community care services to the town/city and encircling areas.

There are two school districts serving the town/city of Mc - Henry: Mc - Henry Community High School District 156 and Mc - Henry School District 15.

District 156 oversees two high schools while District 15 oversees five elementary schools and three middle schools.

The five elementary schools serving Mc - Henry are: The three middle schools serving Mc - Henry are: Mc - Henry Middle School The two high schools positioned inside the town/city of Mchenry are: Mc - Henry East High School Mc - Henry West High School Mc - Henry is served by one enhance library which is part of Cooperative Computer Services (CCS) consortium. The library itself homes physical books, DVDs, magazines, and more as well as providing access to online digital content.

In addition to K-12 schools, Mc - Henry County College holds company seminars and trainings in the Shah Center. The closest enhance global airports to the town/city of Mc - Henry are Chicago's O'Hare International Airport and General Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee.

The town/city of Mc - Henry is served by Pace Bus and joins travellers to other metros/cities in the area. The Prairie Trail runs through the middle of Mc - Henry from Crystal Lake and joins to trails near the border of Wisconsin. Mc - Henry Metra Station Mc - Henry is presently the end of a branch line on Metra's Union Pacific/Northwest Line, with daily passenger service to Ogilvie Transportation Center (Northwestern Station) in downtown Chicago. The line that now terminates at Mc - Henry once continued to Williams Bay, Wisconsin, but that service was discontinued in stages in the 1960s and 1970s. Illinois Route 31 and Illinois Route 120 intersect in the town/city center.

There have been talks by IDOT to extend US Route 12 from the border of Wisconsin at Genoa City through northern Mc - Henry and eventually connect with the proposed Route 53 extension (FAP 342).

2000), established Taylor - Made Golf in Mc - Henry in 1979 1974), actor, interval up in Mc - Henry 1979), football player with the New England Patriots (Super Bowl champion), attended Mc - Henry High School (West Campus) 1965), member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, lived in Mc - Henry and graduated from Mc - Henry High School (West Campus) Luke's Medical Center, Texas Children's Hospital, and MD Anderson Cancer Center, lived in Mc - Henry and graduated from Mc - Henry High School (West Campus) History of Mc - Henry County, Illinois (Vol 1).

History of Mc - Henry County, Illinois (Vol 2).

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