Libertyville, Illinois - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Libertyville is an affluent northern suburb of Chicago

Chicago

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in Lake County

Lake County, Illinois

Lake County is a county in the northeastern corner of the state of Illinois, on the shore of Lake Michigan. According to the 2010 census, it has a population of 703,462, which is an increase of 9.2% from 644,356 in 2000. Its county seat is Waukegan. The county is part of the Chicago metropolitan area...

, Illinois

Illinois

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, United States

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. It is located 5 miles (8 km) west of Lake Michigan on the Des Plaines River

Des Plaines River

The Des Plaines River is a river that flows southward for through southern Wisconsin and northern Illinois in the U.S. Midwest, eventually meeting the Kankakee River west of Channahon to form the Illinois River, a tributary of the Mississippi River....

. The 2000 census population was 20,742; the 2005 estimate was 21,760. (There is also a township of the same name

Libertyville Township, Lake County, Illinois

Libertyville Township is a township in Lake County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2000 census, its population was 48,904. The village of Libertyville is part of the township as are parts of Green Oaks, Lake Bluff, Lake Forest, Mettawa, Mundelein, North Chicago, Rondout, Vernon Hills and Waukegan...

, which includes the village and some surrounding areas.) Located in northeastern Illinois

Illinois

southwest of Waukegan

Waukegan, Illinois

Waukegan is a city and county seat of Lake County, Illinois. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 87,901. The 2010 population was 89,078. It is the ninth-largest city in Illinois by population...

and west of Lake Forest

Lake Forest, Illinois

Lake Forest is an affluent city located in Lake County, Illinois, United States. The city is south of Waukegan along the shore of Lake Michigan, and is a part of the Chicago metropolitan area and the North Shore. Lake Forest was founded around Lake Forest College and was laid out as a town in...

, its immediate neighbors are Mundelein

Mundelein, Illinois

Mundelein is a village in Lake County, Illinois, in the United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 31,064.-History:The community now known as Mundelein has been inhabited since at least 1650, when the Potowatami Indians were known to have been trading with French fur traders....

to the west, Green Oaks

Green Oaks, Illinois

Green Oaks is a village in the Libertyville Township of Lake County, Illinois, United States. The population was 3,572 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Green Oaks is located at ....

, Mettawa

Mettawa, Illinois

Mettawa is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States dedicated to preserving open lands and low-density residential development. The village maintains trails for pedestrian, bicycle and equestrian usage...

, and Rondout to the east, Gurnee

Gurnee, Illinois

Gurnee is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. The population was 28,834 at the 2000 census, and estimated to be 30,772 in 2005. The village borders the city of Waukegan and is considered a part of the Chicago metropolitan area. Gurnee is perhaps best known for being the location of...

to the North, Grayslake

Grayslake, Illinois

Grayslake is a village in Lake County in the U.S. state of Illinois. It is located in the Chicago metropolitan area, about north of Chicago’s downtown, west of Lake Michigan, and south of the Wisconsin border....

to the northwest, and Vernon Hills

Vernon Hills, Illinois

Vernon Hills is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. The population was 20,120 at the 2000 census, and estimated to be 23,957 as of 2005...

to the south.

In 2007, Libertyville was named the 52nd best place to live in the U.S. by CNN Money Magazine.

Terry Weppler was elected mayor of Libertyville on April 8, 2009, defeating incumbent Jeffrey Harger 71 percent to 29 percent.

Geography

Libertyville is located at 42°17′3"N 87°57′38"W (42.284222, -87.960673).

According to the United States Census Bureau

United States Census Bureau

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, the village has a total area of 9.1 square miles (23.6 km²), of which 8.8 square miles (22.8 km²) is land and 0.3 square mile (0.776996433 km²) is water. The total area of Libertyville is 3.20% water.

The Des Plaines River

Des Plaines River

forms much of the eastern boundary of the village. Other bodies of water include Butler Lake and Minear Lake.

Libertyville's main street is Milwaukee Avenue

Milwaukee Avenue (Chicago)

Milwaukee Avenue is a major diagonal street in the city of Chicago and the northern suburbs. True to its name, it once led to the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Starting with a short section at N. Canal and W. Lake Streets, it begins in earnest at the corner of N Desplaines and W. Kinzie Streets...

(Illinois Route 21). The main automobile route to Chicago is via Interstate 94

Interstate 94

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and/or the Edens Expressway; Chicago's Loop

Chicago Loop

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is approximately 45 minutes away. The main Metra

Metra

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rail station sits at the northern edge of downtown off Milwaukee Avenue, and serves the Milwaukee District North Line

Milwaukee District/North Line

The Milwaukee District/North is a commuter rail line provided and operated by Metra in Chicago, Illinois, and its surrounding suburbs...

running from Union Station in Chicago to Fox Lake

Fox Lake

-Cities, towns, townships etc.:Canada*Fox Lake in Nova Scotia* Fox Lake First Nation, ManitobaUnited States*Fox Lake, Illinois*Fox Lake, Montana*Fox Lake, Wisconsin*Fox Lake , Wisconsin*Fox Lake Hills, Illinois...

. The same line is served by another Metra station at Prairie Crossing, near the border of Libertyville and Grayslake. The Prairie Crossing station also serves Metra's North Central Line

North Central Service

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, with service from Union Station to Antioch

Antioch, Illinois

Antioch is a village in the Antioch Township of Lake County, Illinois, United States. The population was 14,430 at the 2010 census. Antioch is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.- Prior to incorporation :...

Major streets

Tri-State Tollway
Tri-State Tollway
The Tri-State Tollway is a U.S. toll road maintained by the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority in northeastern Illinois which is considered one of the most heavily traveled highways in the country...
Milwaukee Avenue
Milwaukee Avenue (Chicago)
Milwaukee Avenue is a major diagonal street in the city of Chicago and the northern suburbs. True to its name, it once led to the city of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Starting with a short section at N. Canal and W. Lake Streets, it begins in earnest at the corner of N Desplaines and W. Kinzie Streets...
Lake Street
Buckley Road/Peterson Road
Park Avenue
Harris Road
Midlothian Road
Winchester Road
Butterfield Road
St. Mary's Road

Demographics

As of the census

Census

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of 2000, there were 20,742 people, 7,298 households, and 5,451 families residing in the village. The population density

Population density

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was 2,364.5 people per square mile (913.2/km²). There were 7,458 housing units at an average density of 850.2 per square mile (328.3/km²). The racial makeup of the village was 92% White, 5% Asian and 1% African American. 0.1% is Native American. About 1% each are classified as belonging to other races

Race (United States Census)

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or to two or more races

Multiracial

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. 3% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. While still largely homogeneous, ethnic diversity has increased slightly since the 1960 census, when the population was indicated as being 99.9% white.

As of the 2000 census, there were 7,298 households, out of which 40% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66% were married couples

Marriage

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living together, 7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 25% were non-families. 22% of all households were made up of individuals and 8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.7 and the average family size was 3.2.

28% of the village's population is under the age of 18, 5% from 18 to 24, 27% from 25 to 44, 28% from 45 to 64, and 12% 65 years of age or older. The median age is 39 years. For every 100 females there were 92.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.9 males.

According to a 2007 estimate, the median household income was $106,337, and the median income for a family was $127,474. Males had a median income of $72,320 versus $39,455 for females. The per capita income

Per capita income

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for the village was $40,426. About 1.9% of families and 3.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 4.2% of those under age 18 and 4.9% of those age 65 or over.

History

The land that is now Libertyville was the property of the Illinois River Potawatomi

Potawatomi

The Potawatomi are a Native American people of the upper Mississippi River region. They traditionally speak the Potawatomi language, a member of the Algonquian family. In the Potawatomi language, they generally call themselves Bodéwadmi, a name that means "keepers of the fire" and that was applied...

Indians until August 1829, when economic and resource pressures forced the tribe to sell much of their land in northern Illinois to the U.S. government for $12,000 cash, an additional $12,000 in goods, plus an annual delivery of 50 barrels of salt.

Pursuant to the treaty, the Potawatomi left their lands by the mid-1830s, and by 1835 the future Libertyville had its first recorded non-indigenous resident, George Vardin. Said to be a "well-educated" English

English people

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immigrant with a wife and a young daughter, Vardin lived in a cabin located where the Cook Park branch of the Cook Memorial Public Library District stands today. Though he apparently moved on to the west that same year, the settlement that grew up around his cabin was initially known as Vardin's Grove.

In 1836, during the celebrations that marked the 60th anniversary of the U.S. Declaration of Independence

United States Declaration of Independence

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, the community voted to name itself Independence Grove. 1837 brought the town's first practicing physician, Dr. Jesse Foster, chased quickly by its first lawyer, Horace Butler, for whom Butler Lake is named. The professionals needed services, so a post office opened, necessitating a third name change, because another Independence Grove existed elsewhere in the state. On April 16, 1837, the new post office (possibly located in Vardin's former cabin) was registered under the name Libertyville.

The town's name changed again two years later to Burlington when it became the county seat of Lake County. When the county seat moved to Little Fort (now Waukegan

Waukegan, Illinois

, which is the Potawatomi word for "Little Fort"), the name reverted to Libertyville, without further changes.

Libertyville's most prominent building, the Cook Mansion, was built in 1879 by Ansel Brainerd Cook, very close to the spot where Vardin's cabin was built in the 1830s. Cook, a teacher and stonemason, became a prominent Chicago builder and politician, providing flagstones for the city's sidewalks and taking part in rebuilding after the Great Chicago Fire

Great Chicago Fire

The Great Chicago Fire was a conflagration that burned from Sunday, October 8, to early Tuesday, October 10, 1871, killing hundreds and destroying about in Chicago, Illinois. Though the fire was one of the largest U.S...

of 1871. The two-story Victorian

Victorian architecture

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mansion served as Cook's summer home as well as the center of his horse farm, which provided animals for Chicago's horsecar lines. The building was remodeled in 1921, when it became the town library, gaining a Colonial

Colonial house

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-style facade with a pillared portico.

The community expanded rapidly with a spur of the Milwaukee Road

Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific Railroad

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train line (now a Metra

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 area was largely destroyed by fire in 1895, and the village board mandated brick to be used for reconstruction—resulting in a village center whose architecture is substantially unified by both period and building material. The National Trust for Historic Preservation

National Trust for Historic Preservation

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, which gave Libertyville a Great American Main Street Award, called the downtown "a place with its own sense of self, where people still stroll the streets on a Saturday night, 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

Samuel Insull

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, founder of Commonwealth Edison

Commonwealth Edison

Commonwealth Edison is the largest electric utility in Illinois, serving the Chicago and Northern Illinois area...

, began purchasing land south of Libertyville in 1906. His eventually acquired 4445 acres (18 km²), a holding that he named Hawthorn-Mellody Farms. He also bought the Chicago & Milwaukee Electric line (later the Chicago, North Shore & Milwaukee), which built a spur from Lake Bluff

Lake Bluff, Illinois

Lake Bluff is a village in Lake County, Illinois. It is the closest moderate-sized town near the Great Lakes Navy Base and is North of Lake Forest. The population is 6,056 according to the 2000 census. The town has a police department and volunteer fire department.-History:In 1836, John and...

to Libertyville in 1903. When Insull was ruined by the Great Depression

Great Depression

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, parts of his estate were bought by prominent Chicagoans Adlai Stevenson and John F. Cuneo.

Schools

Elementary Schools

Adler
Butterfield
Copeland
Rockland
St. Josephs
Oak Grove
Rondout

Middle Schools

Highland
Highland Middle School
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St. Josephs
Oak Grove
Rondout

Hawthorn School District

Students living in the southern-most portions of Libertyville — mainly the Libertyville Ridge, Greentree, and Red Top subdivisions and other communities south of Golf Road—attend elementary and middle school in the Vernon Hills-based Hawthorn District 73

Hawthorn Community Consolidated School District 73

Hawthorn Community Consolidated School District 73 is located in Vernon Hills, Illinois, approximately 35 miles northwest of Chicago. It has approximately 3,763 students in grades Pre-Kindergarten through 8th grade in six schools.- Schools :...

Libertyville High School

Part of Community High School District 128

Community High School District 128

Community High School District 128 is located in Lake County, Illinois. The district includes Libertyville High School and Vernon Hills High School.-History:...

Notable residents

David Adler
David Adler
David Adler was a prolific architect, designing over 200 buildings...

, architect
Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando
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, Academy Award–winning actor
Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron
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, writer and artist, most famous for her book The Artist's Way
The Artist's Way
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Marietta DePrima
Marietta DePrima
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, actress (The Hughleys
The Hughleys
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)
Michael Simpson
Michael Simpson
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, National speaker and Author29i
George F. Pond
George F. Pond
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, Civil War-era Medal of Honor
Medal of Honor
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recipient
Adlai Stevenson, Illinois governor, presidential candidate, ambassador, known as "The man from Libertyville"
Mark Suppelsa
Mark Suppelsa
Mark Eugene Suppelsa is a journalist, who presently works as an anchor an reporter for WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois. Suppelsa currently serves as the co-anchor of the "WGN Evening News" from 5-6 p.m. with Lourdes Duarte and the station's long-running primetime newscast "WGN News at Nine" with Micah...

, co-anchor of WGN-TV
WGN-TV
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's 9:00 news
King Peter II of Yugoslavia
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, the only monarch to be buried on U.S. soil, is buried in Libertyville
Kirsten Kuehn, Bridal Accessories Designer

Music

Tom Morello
Tom Morello
Thomas Baptiste "Tom" Morello is a Grammy Award-winning American guitarist best known for his tenure with the bands Rage Against the Machine, Audioslave, his acoustic solo act The Nightwatchman, and his newest group, Street Sweeper Social Club...

, guitarist for the bands Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine
Rage Against the Machine is an American rock band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1991, the group's line-up consists of vocalist Zack de la Rocha, bassist and backing vocalist Tim Commerford, guitarist Tom Morello and drummer Brad Wilk...

, Audioslave
Audioslave
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, and The Nightwatchman
The Nightwatchman
The Nightwatchman is the alter-ego and solo act of Rage Against the Machine, Street Sweeper Social Club and former Audioslave guitarist Tom Morello...
Adam Jones
Adam Jones (musician)
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, guitarist for the band Tool
Tool (band)
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Maureen Herman
Maureen Herman
Maureen Herman was from 1992 until 1996 the bass player for the Minneapolis-based Babes in Toyland.-Early years:Herman was raised in Libertyville, Illinois, and attended Libertyville High School...

, bassist for the band Babes in Toyland
Babes in Toyland (band)
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Jim Broustis, guitarist for the band X-tal
X-tal
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mc chris
Mc chris
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, rapper, voice actor, and improvisational comedian
Ike Reilly
Ike Reilly
Ike Reilly is a musician from Libertyville, Illinois.In 2003 Reilly and bandmates Tommy O'Donnell, Ed Tinley, Dave Cottini, Phil Karnats assumed the name The Ike Reilly Assassination and released "Sparkle in the Finish."The band is well-known by fans of TJ & Dave, an improv duo that performs...

, indie rock musician
Christopher Hall
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, former lead singer of Stabbing Westward
Stabbing Westward
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and current lead singer of The Dreaming
The Dreaming (US band)
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.

Sports

Mike Marshall
Mike Marshall (baseball outfielder)
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, 1984 National League
National League
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All-Star
Major League Baseball All-Star Game
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Brett Butler
Brett Butler (baseball player)
Brett Morgan Butler is a former center fielder in Major League Baseball who played for five different teams from 1981 through 1997.-Playing career:...

, 1991 National League
National League
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All-Star
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Frank Thomas (AL baseball player)
Frank Thomas (AL baseball player)
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, former White Sox All-Star, two-time MLB American League
American League
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MVP
Roberto Garza
Roberto Garza
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, American football guard for the Chicago Bears
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of the NFL
Kevin Walter
Kevin Walter
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, American football wide receiver for the Houston Texans
Houston Texans
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of the NFL

Sports

Libertyville High School
Libertyville High School
Libertyville High School, or LHS, is a public four-year high school located in Libertyville, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States...

's football team, the Libertyville Wildcats, won the State Championship in 2004 and was runner-up in 2003.
Libertyville High School Varsity Cheerleading was also a National qualifier and contender, taking 3rd place in the Co-Ed Division in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis , nicknamed "City of Lakes" and the "Mill City," is the county seat of Hennepin County, the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota, and the 48th largest in the United States...

during the same academic school year that the Libertyville Varsity Football team won the State Championship.
LHS's boys lacrosse team made it to the state final in 2004, losing to Loyola Academy
Loyola Academy
Loyola Academy is a private, co-educational college preparatory high school, located in Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago. Located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago, it is one of 47 Jesuit high schools in the United States and is a member of the Jesuit Secondary Education...

. The team is a powerhouse in the state of Illinois, appearing in multiple state final fours.
LHS's wrestling program appeared in the 2008 Dual Team State Finals, taking fourth. This performance was the capstone on a run of nineteen regional championships in twenty years with Team State appearances in 2002, 2005, and 2008.
Libertyville has a youth football organization called The Libertyville Boys Club. This includes weight-based football travel teams. The teams play at Butler Lake Park.
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 events.
The Greater Libertyville Soccer Association (GLSA) is a successful organization in Libertyville that includes house and travel teams.
The Lake Shore Lynx are Libertyville's first semi-pro sports team and play all their games at the Brainerd Campus. The Lake Shore Lynx are the 2008, 2009, and 2010 Gridiron Football League champions. Players from Libertyville High School have been a staple of this organization. Athletes such as Kevin Fontana, Shane Voigt, Dan Nikolich, Nick Nikolich, TJ Fehling and Kevin Dickson have all helped this organization become a powerhouse in the GFL. Founders of this organization are Mike Johnson and Bryan McDermott.
The Libertyville Ladycats (grades 5-8) is a girls travel basketball team that feeds into LHS.

Library

Libertyville is one of six communities comprising the Cook Memorial Public Library District

Cook Memorial Public Library District

The Cook Memorial Public Library District is the public library system that serves six communities in northern Lake County, Illinois: Green Oaks, Indian Creek, Libertyville, Mettawa, parts of Mundelein, and Vernon Hills. There are two library facilities: Cook Park Library in Libertyville and the...

. The Cook Park library, located on Cook and Brainerd streets in Libertyville, is one of the District's two library facilities. The library was originally housed in the Cook Mansion, after resident Ansel B. Cook's wife, Emily, deeded the property to the Village of Libertyville in 1920 for use as a library. In 1968, a 33000 square feet (3,065.8 m²) addition was added, adjacent to the Cook home. By 1984, the library's collection as well as the population, had doubled in size. The Evergreen Interim Library opened in 2003 as a temporary facility at the south end of the District, in Vernon Hills, Illinois

Vernon Hills, Illinois

Vernon Hills is a village in Lake County, Illinois, United States. The population was 20,120 at the 2000 census, and estimated to be 23,957 as of 2005...

. In 2007, the Library Board adopted plans to add an approximately 10000 square feet (929 m²) addition to the Cook Park facility, which was completed in January 2011.

Newspapers

The Libertyville Review published by Pioneer Press

Pioneer Press

The Pioneer Press publishes 50 local newspapers in the metropolitan Chicago area. It is a division of the Sun-Times Media Group. Pioneer Press' headquarters is in Glenview...

, covers Libertyville. Regional newspapers that occasionally contain coverage of Libertyville include Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...

, Daily Herald and News Sun
News Sun
The Lake County News-Sun is a regional newspaper based in Gurnee, Illinois, that predominantly covers news for Lake County, Illinois, a part of the Chicago metropolitan area. It is currently owned by the Sun-Times Media Group as part of its Suburban Chicago Newspapers division, which publishes...

.

Transportation

Libertyville has a station

Prairie Crossing (Metra North Central)

Prairie Crossing is a station on Metra's North Central Service in Libertyville, Illinois. The station is away from Union Station, the southern terminus of the line. In Metra's zone-based fare system, Prairie Crossing is in zone H....

on Metra

Metra

's North Central Service

North Central Service

, which provides daily rail service between Antioch, Illinois

Antioch, Illinois

and Chicago, Illinois (at Union Station

Union Station (Chicago)

Union Station is a major train station that opened in 1925 in Chicago, replacing an earlier 1881 station. It is now the only intercity rail terminal in Chicago, as well as being the city's primary terminal for commuter trains. The station stands on the west side of the Chicago River between Adams...

). It also has two stations

Libertyville (Metra)

Libertyville Station is one of two commuter railroad stations on Metra's Milwaukee District/North Line in Libertyville, Illinois. The station is officially located on 200 West Lake Street near Milwaukee Avenue , is away from Union Station, the southern terminus of the line, and serves commuters...

along Metra's Milwaukee District/North Line

Milwaukee District/North Line

The Milwaukee District/North is a commuter rail line provided and operated by Metra in Chicago, Illinois, and its surrounding suburbs...

which provides service between Fox Lake, Illinois

Fox Lake, Illinois

Fox Lake is a village in Grant Township, Lake County, Illinois and Richmond Township, McHenry County, Illinois. The population was 9,178 at the 2000 census.-History:...

and Union Station, one of which shares a driveway with the station for the North Central Service.

Drinking water supply

The Libertyville water supply comes from the Central Lake County Joint Action Water Agency (CLCJAWA) located in Lake Bluff, Illinois

Lake Bluff, Illinois

. CLCJAWA purifies water from Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan

Lake Michigan is one of the five Great Lakes of North America and the only one located entirely within the United States. It is the second largest of the Great Lakes by volume and the third largest by surface area, after Lake Superior and Lake Huron...

Parks

Charles Brown Park
Riverside Park
Butler Lake Park
Nicholas Dowden Park
Sunrise Rotary Park
Bolander Park
Adler Park
Blueberry Hill Park
Paul Neal Park
Greentree Park

Clubs and organizations

External links

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