Lake Holiday, Illinois

Lake Holiday is a census-designated place located on Lake Holiday in Northville Township, LaSalle County, Illinois, United States. Its population was 4,761 as of the 2010 census.[2]

Lake Holiday, Illinois
Census-designated place
Lake Holiday Lake Holiday
Coordinates: 41°36′56″N 88°40′13″W[1]
Country	United States
State	Illinois
County	LaSalle
Township	Northville
Established	July 2, 1965
Area
• Total	3.684 sq mi (9.54 km^2)
• Land	3.201 sq mi (8.29 km^2)
• Water	0.483 sq mi (1.25 km^2)
Elevation [1]	650 ft (200 m)
Population  (2010)[2]
• Total	4,761
• Density	3,852/sq mi (1,487.3/km^2)
Time zone	UTC-6 (Central (CST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-5 (CDT)
ZIP code(s)	60548, 60552
Area code(s)	815 & 779
GNIS feature ID	2629851[1]
Website	www.lakeholiday.us

The homes on the western banks of the lake are served by the Somonauk Fire Department/EMS and the Somonauk School District, while the eastern banks of the lake are covered by Sandwich municipal services (Fire/EMS, CUSD 430). However, due to the community's location south of the LaSalle-DeKalb county line, neither Sandwich Police nor Somonauk Police have any jurisdiction. Instead, the area is patrolled by local security, which has limited authority. For serious matters, the community is covered by the LaSalle County Sheriff's Department, which has a substation in the Northville Township Building, a few miles to the south of Lake Holiday.

The Lake Holiday CDP includes the neighborhoods surrounding Lake Holiday as well as neighboring Wildwood, which sits to the east of County Highway 3. Lake Holiday was created in the mid-1960s as a lake resort community, with its property owners association being incorporated on July 2, 1965.[3] Wildwood was created around the same time, as a modular home community just across the highway. Starting in the early 1990s, an annex to Wildwood known as "Wildwood South" or "New Wildwood" was created, with completion around 2002. Both subdivisions share a gas station and a small retail area, with a restaurant having been built in 2006-2007 farther north, just south of the county line.

Lake Holiday was created by damming up Somonauk Creek in 1965,[4] on its path south toward its confluence with the Fox River just north of Sheridan.

References

1. "Lake Holiday Census Designated Place". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
2. "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Census Summary File 1 (DP-1), Lake Holiday CDP, Illinois". American FactFinder. U.S. Census Bureau. Archived from the original on February 13, 2020. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
3. "Corporation File Detail Report". Illinois Secretary of State. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
4. http://www.epa.state.il.us/water/water-quality/report-1996/fact-sheets/fact-sheet-04.html