Biohazard and Pathogen Disinfection in Mundelein, IL

Mundelein is a village in Lake County, Illinois, a northern suburb 33 miles northwest of the Chicago Loop, and with 31,560 residents in the 2020 census it is one of Lake County's largest communities.

The area was first settled by Europeans in 1835, when Peter Shaddle built a log cabin there, and English settlers soon named the town Mechanics Grove after their trades as millwrights, wheelwrights, and carpenters; its first school opened in 1837.

Few American towns have renamed themselves as often as Mundelein: it went from Mechanics Grove to Holcomb in the early 1850s, to Rockefeller in 1885 (for railroad stockholder William Rockefeller Jr.), to Area in 1909, and finally to Mundelein in 1925.

The village incorporated on February 1, 1909, under the name Rockefeller, anticipating a boom after a rail spur from the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad reached it in 1904.

The short-lived name 'Area' came from a sales school in the village whose motto was 'Ability, Reliability, Endurance, and Action.'

In 1921, Chicago Archbishop George Mundelein bought the failed Sheldon School estate and opened the University of Saint Mary of the Lake seminary; in 1925 the village renamed itself Mundelein in the cardinal's honor.

On June 24, 1926, Mundelein hosted the closing events of the 28th International Eucharistic Congress at the seminary, drawing roughly half a million people - and 820 trains passed through the village station between dawn and midnight that day.

The 2020 census counted 31,560 people and 11,417 households in Mundelein, with a median household income of $91,535.

Diamond Lake, a 153-acre glacial lake in southern Mundelein up to about 24 feet deep, is used for fishing, swimming, and boating and drains into the Des Plaines River.

Mundelein's continental climate has produced a record high of 103 degrees Fahrenheit in July 2012 and a record low of minus 26 degrees in January 2019, with about 41 inches of snow in an average year.