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Third Lake is a village in Lake County whose motto is "Where Life Meets The Lakes."

The Alexander Druce family were the earliest residents of the Third Lake settlement in 1861 and owned both Druce Lake and Chittenden Lake, and the second lake was renamed Third Lake in 1954, while the Druce family cemetery was in place by 1907.

The Sunshine Subdivision in Third Lake was platted in the late 1920s, and the village was incorporated in 1959 specifically in order to avoid pollution and halt development.

Despite that goal, major development began in the mid-1980s with the Mariner's Cove Subdivision, and Third Lake's population jumped 462.2% in a single decade, from 222 in 1980 to 1,248 in 1990.

Third Lake has two lakes, Druce Lake and Third Lake itself, both used for fishing, boating, swimming, and skating, and water makes up 33.03% of the village's 0.88 square miles.

Third Lake has been the headquarters of the Serbian Orthodox Diocese of New Gracanica – Midwestern America since 1977, and its New Gračanica Monastery, completed and consecrated in 1984, is a detailed replica of the Gračanica monastery in Kosovo built 18% larger than the original, with hand-carved entrance doors depicting 23 Serbian monasteries and churches.

Third Lake had a population of 1,111 in the 2020 census, down from its peak of 1,355 in 2000.

The 2020 census counted 424 households and only 433 housing units in Third Lake, with just 2.1% vacant, a median age of 48.6 years, and an unusually high 73.1% of households made up of married couples.

Third Lake is one of Lake County's most affluent small villages, with a median household income of $135,021, a median family income of $136,377, a per capita income of $54,025, and no families at all below the poverty line in the 2020 census figures.

Commercial businesses line the U.S. Route 45 corridor through Third Lake, the village is governed by a mayor and six trustees elected at large as a non-home-rule community, and Pace buses on Routes 565, 572, and 574 connect it to Grayslake and Waukegan.