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Tower Lakes is a village in Lake County, Illinois, in the Barrington area northwest of Chicago, built around a group of small lakes.

Tower Lakes was first platted for development in 1924 by real estate partners Myron H. Detrick and William E. Brooks, who bought 70 acres of the Brooks/Paddock farm at Davlin's Corner, dammed Mud Creek to form a lake, and built a 68-foot steel observation tower on the west side of the lake from which you could see the Fox River, giving Tower Lake Park its name.

In 1925 the then-famous radio evangelist Paul Rader bought Tower Lake Park for religious revival meetings, and in 1926 Evanston-based Nazareth Barsumian, considered the father of present-day Tower Lakes, purchased the property and developed it as a residential community.

The Tower Lakes Improvement Association was chartered in 1931 to govern the growing community and still owns and manages the village's lakes and parks alongside the village government.

In the 1940s home construction in Tower Lakes shifted from summer cottages to year-round residences, and the Village of Tower Lakes was incorporated on December 12, 1966.

The population of Tower Lakes was 1,226 at the 2020 census, down from 1,283 in 2010, 1,310 in 2000, and a peak of 1,333 in 1990.

Tower Lakes covers a total area of about 1.04 square miles, of which about 12 percent is water, including Tower Lake, North Tower Lake, and Davlins Pond.

At the 2010 census Tower Lakes had 439 housing units for its roughly 1,283 residents, reflecting its small, entirely residential character.

Unusually for a municipality its size, Tower Lakes has its own water company, purchased from private owners in 1995, and its own police department employing 18 part-time officers.

Tower Lakes has earned federal designation as a Tree City for 20 years, and its parks include the Tower Lakes Fen Nature Preserve and Wagner Fen Nature Preserve, along with Aram Park, Barsumian Park, and Bays Park.