Emergency Crime Scene and Biohazard Cleanup in Libertyville, IL

Libertyville is a village in Lake County whose land belonged to the Potawatomi until August 1829, when the tribe sold much of its northern Illinois land to the U.S. government for $12,000 in cash, $12,000 in goods, and an annual delivery of 50 barrels of salt.

The first recorded non-Native resident of the future Libertyville was George Vardin, who arrived in 1835; the village incorporated in 1882 after a Milwaukee Road rail spur reached it the year before.

A fire largely destroyed Libertyville's downtown in 1895, and the village board mandated brick construction for the rebuild — a decision that gave the center its unified historic look and later helped it win a Great American Main Street Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation.

From 1970 until 2013, Libertyville's St. Sava Serbian Orthodox Monastery held the tomb of Peter II of Yugoslavia, the only European monarch buried on American soil, before his remains were returned to Serbia.

Utilities magnate Samuel Insull began buying land south of Libertyville in 1906 and assembled 4,445 acres he named Hawthorn-Mellody Farms; parts of the estate were later bought by Adlai Stevenson II and John F. Cuneo, whose home is now the Cuneo Museum.

Libertyville had a population of 20,579 at the 2020 census, with 7,611 households and a median household income of about $150,580.

Students in the village attend Libertyville High School, part of Community High School District 128, one of the top-ranked high school districts in Illinois.

The Cook Park Library in Libertyville began in the Cook Mansion, which Emily Cook deeded to the village in 1920 for use as a library; the village is now part of the Cook Memorial Public Library District.

Libertyville's parks and lakes include Independence Grove, Butler Lake, Lake Minear, Adler Park, and Cook Park.

Advocate Condell Medical Center is Libertyville's largest employer, with more than 2,100 employees.