Island Lake, IL, Website

Island Lake, Illinois. Island Lake is known as a community of friendly people. Island lake is a small town that tries to keep as much of the flavor of a rural village, while running their city in a way that is beneficial to all their citizens.

It took a little imagination and a healthy entrepreneurial spirit to envision a lake community in the agricultural area; just west of Wauconda in the late 1920's. The area had no lake or island, just rolling farmland, a gravel pit and Mutton Creek. In 1929, a group of area residents decided to dam up Mutton Creek and establish a lake development.

Unfortunately, their plans were no match for the Depression of the 30's. There were just a few families settled around the newly created lake before the National Mortgage and Investment Company took control of the land eventually developing the surrounding lake lots as Island Lake Estates.

The Island Lake area was targeted for middle income people, who if they saved enough money, could have a nice lake cottage. And this has been the town's charm. Just plain folk getting a chance to own a piece of charming property in a natural setting surrounded by Mutton Creek, Cotton Creek Marsh, Island Lake, Highwood Lake, Slocum Lake and the Fox River.