Crystal Lake
Crystal Lake is a city of 40,000 people in Northern Illinois. It has a revitalized historic downtown district, which is home to many small specialty shops and businesses, and is a local shopping district.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 40,300 residents
- Description: city in McHenry County, Illinois, USA
- Also known as: “Chrystal Lake”, “Crystal Lake Station”, “Crystal Lake, IL”, “Crystal Lake, Illinois”, “Crystallake”, “Dearborn”, and “North Crystal Lake”
- Historically known as: “Brooklyn” and “Nunda”
- Postal codes: 60012, 60014, and 60039
Places of Interest
Highlights include Crystal Lake station and Col. Gustavus A. Palmer House.
Crystal Lake station
Railway station
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
Crystal Lake is one of two stations on Metra's Union Pacific Northwest Line located in Crystal Lake, Illinois. The station is two stops away from the line's terminus at Harvard, and most of the trains on the Northwest Line only run as far as Crystal Lake.
Col. Gustavus A. Palmer House
Historic building
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
The Col. Gustavus A. Palmer House is a historic residence in Crystal Lake, Illinois.
Pingree Road station
Railway station
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Pingree Road is one of two commuter railroad stations on Metra's Union Pacific Northwest Line in the city of Crystal Lake, Illinois. The station is officially located at 570 Congress Parkway at Pingree Road, and is 41.7 miles from Ogilvie Transportation Center in Chicago.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lakewood.
Lakewood
Village
The Village of Lakewood is a village in McHenry County, Illinois, United States. It was incorporated as a village on July 10, 1933. Per the 2020 census, the population was 4,283. Lakewood is situated 2 miles southwest of Crystal Lake.
Crystal Lake
- Categories: city in the United States and locality
- Location: Algonquin Township, McHenry County, Northern Illinois, Illinois, Midwest, United States, North America
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Latitude
42.2411° or 42° 14′ 28″ northLongitude
-88.3162° or 88° 18′ 58″ westPopulation
40,300Elevation
915 feet (279 metres)United Nations Location Code
US CTDOpen location code
86JH6MRM+FGOpenStreetMap ID
node 153590715OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Crystal Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كريستال ليك”
- Basque: “Crystal Lake”
- Catalan: “Crystal Lake”
- Cebuano: “Crystal Lake”
- Chechen: “Кристал-Лейк”
- Chinese: “Crystal Lake”
- Chinese: “克里斯托爾湖”
- Chinese: “水晶湖”
- Chinese: “湖城”
- Croatian: “Crystal Lake”
- Danish: “Crystal Lake”
- Dutch: “Crystal Lake”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كريستال ليك”
- Esperanto: “Crystal Lake”
- French: “Crystal Lake”
- German: “Crystal Lake”
- Gilaki: “کريستال لیک (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “کريستال لیک”
- Haitian: “Crystal Lake, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Crystal Lake”
- Ido: “Crystal Lake, Illinois”
- Ido: “Crystal Lake”
- Irish: “Crystal Lake”
- Italian: “Crystal Lake”
- Japanese: “クリスタルレイク”
- Korean: “크리스털레이크”
- Ladin: “Crystal Lake”
- Lombard: “Crystal Lake”
- Mazanderani: “کریستاللیک (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “کریستاللیک”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Crystal Lake”
- Newari: “क्रिस्टल लेक (इलियोनोई)”
- Newari: “क्रिस्टल लेक, इलिनोइ”
- Newari: “क्रिस्टल लेक, इलियोनोई”
- Newari: “क्रिस्टल लेक”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Crystal Lake”
- Norwegian: “Crystal Lake”
- Persian: “کریستاللیک، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “کریستاللیک”
- Polish: “Crystal Lake”
- Portuguese: “Crystal Lake”
- Russian: “Кристал Лэйк”
- Russian: “Кристал-Лейк”
- Serbian: “Кристал Лејк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Crystal Lake, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Crystal Lake”
- South Azerbaijani: “کریستاللیک، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Crystal Lake (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Crystal Lake”
- Swedish: “Crystal Lake, Illinois”
- Swedish: “Crystal Lake”
- Tatar: “Кристал-Лейк”
- Turkish: “Crystal Lake, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Crystal Lake”
- Ukrainian: “Кристал-Лейк”
- Urdu: “کرستل لیک، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “کرستل لیک”
- Uzbek: “Crystal Lake”
- Uzbek: “Cрйстал Лаке”
- Vietnamese: “Crystal Lake, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Crystal Lake”
- Volapük: “Crystal Lake”
- Waray (Philippines): “Crystal Lake, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Crystal Lake”
- Welsh: “Crystal Lake, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Crystal Lake”
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