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.
- Type: Town with 40,300 residents
- Description: city in McHenry County, Illinois, USA
- Also known as: “Chrystal Lake”, “Crystal Lake (Illinois)”, “Crystal Lake Station”, “Crystal Lake, IL”, “Crystal Lake, Illinois”, “Crystallake”, “Cрйстал Лаке”, “Dearborn”, “North Crystal Lake”, and “क्रिस्टल लेक (इलियोनोई)”
- Historically known as: “Brooklyn” and “Nunda”
- Postal codes: 60012, 60014, and 60039
Places of Interest
Highlights: Crystal Lake station and Col. Gustavus A. Palmer House.
Col. Gustavus A. Palmer House
Historic building
Photo: Smallbones, Public domain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lakewood.
Lakewood
Village
The Village of Lakewood is a village in McHenry County, Illinois, United States. 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″ north
Longitude
-88.3162° or 88° 18′ 58″ west
Population
40,300
Elevation
915 feet (279 metres)
UN/LOCODE
US CTD
Open location code
86JH6MRM+FG
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap 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: “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, 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 Лейк”
- 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”
- 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”
- 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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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Crystal Lake Junction and Oakbrook Estates Mobile Home Park.
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