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Crystal Lake, IL - History
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Welcome to the Crystal Lake Home page. The Crystal Lake Home page provides as much information as possible on Crystal Lake. Knowing Crystal Lake’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Crystal Lake’s Home page, you will also find Crystal Lake’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Crystal Lake has a population of 39685. 50.3% of Crystal Lake’s inhabitants are Male, and 49.7 are female. 57.5% of Crystal Lake is married and 75.9% own their own home. The Average Home price is $233,036, and the average rent is $1,224. Household median income in Crystal Lake is $91,456, and the individual median income is $40,325. Crystal Lake’s Ethnic is the following: White(91.4%), Hispanic(12.2%), Asian(3.5%), Multiple(2.7%), Other(1.3%), Black(1%), Native(0.1%).
On April 11, 1965, during the Palm Sunday tornado outbreak, a large and devastating tornado damaged or destroyed large portions of the city. Six people were killed by the tornado, and a further 75 wounded. Damages in the city totaled over $1.5 million, as 80 homes and a shopping center were completely destroyed.
Disaster shelters were set up to house the homeless, and then-governor of Illinois, Otto Kerner, Jr., personally visited the city to view the damage.In the past 20 years, the history of Crystal Lake has consisted mainly of the growing of suburban subdivisions, as the population increased to 38,000 in the 2000 Census from 21,823 in the 1990 Census.
In order to deal with the growth, Crystal Lake South High School was opened in 1978. Previously, Crystal Lake Community High School (now Crystal Lake Central High School) had served the entire city of Crystal Lake since 1924. Even more recently a third high school, Prairie Ridge High School, opened in 1997 north of the city to accommodate the spread moving into the area between Crystal Lake and the two communities directly to its north, Prairie Grove and Bull Valley. Some challenges currently facing the city of Crystal Lake include a large and sudden increase in immigration, and an inconvenient road system leading to frequently snarled traffic.
However, the overall quality of life and education in the city remains quite high. In addition, a robust city park system and continued revitalization of the downtown area, including a new city hall, have continued to make Crystal Lake an attractive community for new residents. Another positive note for the city is that Crystal Lake is the city where the tradition of giving gold coins to the Salvation Army anonymously began in 1982.The Raue Center for the Arts, in the downtown district, has distinguished itself as a regional and national tourism draw.
The National Piano Conference has been held in the Raue Center since 2012. In 2015, Crystal Lake was ranked tenth best city among 1,268 U.S. cities with populations between 25,000 and 100,000 by WalletHub.In 2016, it was reported that there were zero retail vacancies in the downtown district of Crystal Lake.
This was the case until 2017.On July 7, 2021, U.S. President Joe Biden visited McHenry County College in Crystal Lake, becoming the first sitting president to visit the city. Then-Vice President George H. W. Bush had twice visited Crystal Lake in 1988 while campaigning for president.
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