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Lake in the Hills, IL
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McHenry County, 41 miles NW of the Loop. Lake in the Hills was developed as a summer estate around artificial lakes in the 1920s, and investors began residential
subdivisions
of the area in the 1940s. In- corporated in 1952, the rolling terrain is now a vast residential area. The village's population grew from 5,866 in 1990 to 23,152 in 2000.
| Lake in the Hills, IL (inc. 1952) | |||||
| Year |
Total
(and by category) |
Foreign Born | Native with foreign parentage | Males per 100 females | |
| 1960 | 2,046 | — | — | 101 | |
| 2,046 | White (100.0%) | ||||
| 1990 | 5,866 | 1.9% | — | 106 | |
| 5,857 | White (99.8%) | ||||
| 9 | American Indian (0.2%) | ||||
| 70 | Hispanic Origin* (1.2%) | ||||
| 2000 | 23,152 | 8.6% | — | 101 | |
| 21,206 | White alone (91.6%) | ||||
| 347 | Black or African American alone (1.5%) | ||||
| 33 | American Indian and Alaska Native alone (0.1%) | ||||
| 770 | Asian alone (3.3%) | ||||
| 4 | Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander alone (0.0%) | ||||
| 430 | Some other race alone (1.9%) | ||||
| 362 | Two or more races (1.6%) | ||||
| 1,462 | Hispanic or Latino* (6.3%) | ||||
Bibliography
McHenry County in the Twentieth Century, 1968–1994.
McHenry County Historical Society. 1994.
Nye, Lowell A., ed.
McHenry County, Illinois, 1832–1968.
1968.
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