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Lake Villa is a village in Lake County, Illinois, about 50 miles north of Chicago, whose motto is Gateway to the Lake Region.

The village of Lake Villa dates its founding to 1901, publishing its centennial history, Lake Villa Then and Now, in 2001.

Lake Villa sits in a gently rolling glacial moraine landscape dotted with lakes of glacial origin at the edge of the Chain O'Lakes, including Cedar Lake north of the village center and Deep Lake to the east.

Lake Villa's lakes and ponds long supported a tourist industry of resorts and summer visitors, and even a small ice-harvesting industry in the days before refrigeration.

Water makes up about 11 percent of Lake Villa's 7.3 square miles.

Lake Villa was a tiny resort village for most of its history, with just 342 residents in 1910 and 1,462 in 1980, before suburban growth pushed it to 5,864 by 2000.

Lake Villa's population reached 8,741 at the 2010 census and was exactly 8,741 again at the 2020 census, a statistical rarity of zero percent change over a decade.

The 2020 census counted 3,115 households in Lake Villa, and the village's median household income was $105,639, well above state and national medians.

Lake Villa has a station on Metra's North Central Service, with trains running through the village center on the Wisconsin Central line between Antioch and Chicago's Union Station.

Lakes Community High School, home of the Eagles, opened in Lake Villa in August 2004 as the second high school of Community High School District 117, which it shares with Antioch.