Towerlakes-il.gov Website Review

The Village of Tower Lakes, incorporated in 1966, is located in the southwest corner of Lake County, Illinois, USA The population is just over 1,300. Originally developed in the 1920’s as a recreational summer-home community, the Village is centered around two scenic private lakes totaling over 85 acres. Although all the homes are now year-round, the lakes and heavily wooded rolling hills continue to attract recreation oriented and The Village occupies approximately 1.1 square miles and presently contains just over 430 single-family homes and no commercial business buildings, schools, churches or post office. The Village is within the award-winning Barrington Community Unit School District 220 graduating seniors go on to attend college. Grade school children attend the North Barrington School, less than one mile south of Tower Lakes. Private schools for grades K-8 are also available in Barrington. The Village of Tower Lakes shares the post office and zip code with Barrington (60010). Home prices average a little over $450,000 with a range of approximately $250,000 to over $1,000,000. Residents commute to jobs in nearby suburbs as well as in Chicago. Frequent commuter rail service is available from the Barrington Metra The Tower Lakes Police Department now has a link for residents to schedule vacation watches and arrange for overnight parking requests. The Village of Tower Lakes ZBA will consider the petition of R. Kanak and G. Compagnoni, 25175 N. IL Route 59, proposing that the subject property be granted a use variance to allow them to keep chickens.  A public hearing granting the public an opportunity to comment will be The Village of Tower Lakes is considering amending Title 10, “Zoning Regulations”, of the Village of Tower Lakes Village Code to allow garden fences and to address a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that signage must be “content neutral.”  A public hearing granting the The Village of Tower Lakes Plan Commission meeting scheduled for Wednesday, July 11, 2018 has been changed to Monday, July 16, 2018,