Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Fox Lake, IL

Fox Lake is a village in Lake County that also extends into McHenry County, located about 50 miles northwest of downtown Chicago.

The area was known in the late 19th century as Nippersink Point, and the village was incorporated on December 15, 1906, with state certification on April 13, 1907.

Fox Lake calls itself the 'Heart of the Chain O'Lakes,' a waterway system linking 15 lakes and about 45 miles of rivers, and the village center sits on the shores of Pistakee Lake, Nippersink Lake and Fox Lake.

Fox Lake's population was 10,978 at the 2020 census, but in its early-20th-century resort heyday the summer population swelled to an estimated 20,000 people, served by some 50 hotels and 2,000 cottages.

Fox Lake has about 5,280 households averaging just 2.10 people each, and about 68% of its homes are owner-occupied - many of the rest are seasonal lake homes.

About 17% of Fox Lake's 9.44 square miles is water, and its village limits snake north all the way to the Wisconsin state line.

The Mineola Hotel in Fox Lake, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979, may be the largest wooden-frame structure in Illinois, and local legend holds that Al Capone used it as a hideout, though this has never been documented.

Fox Lake students attend Grant Community High School, established in 1930 and home of the Bulldogs, whose district covers about 30 square miles of Lake County.