Shields Township is located in east-central Lake County, Illinois, and includes the Lake Michigan shoreline as its east border. The population was 39,062 at the 2010 census.
GEOGRAPHY …
Shields Township covers an area of 17.7 square miles. There are no major lakes in Shields Township, but there are about 6.5 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline on the east border. The Skokie River, flowing south, rises from a flat area (historically a wetland, now the Willow Glen Golf Club) on the west side of the city of North Chicago and just northeast of the intersection of US 41 and IL-137 of in Shields township. The Skokie River flows south into West Deerfield Township and Moraine Township in Lake County and into Cook County. The North Branch of the Chicago River passes through the southwest corner of Shields Township in the Middlefork Savanna Forest Preserve, which is just east of the Chicago Bears Headquarters Halas Hall in Libertyville Township.
There are several golf courses developed in Shields Township …
Willow Glen Golf Club
Shoreacress
Lake Bluff Golf Course
Knollwood Club
Deerpath Golf Course
Onwentsia Club Golf Course
The Captain James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center is located in North Chicago in Shields Township.
Lake County Illinois is ranked number among the top counties in Illinois and the United States by Median Family Income; and much of that wealth is located Shields County.
CITIES AND TOWNS …
Knollwood (unincorporated area)
Lake Bluff
Lake Forest (north half)
North Chicago (south third)
Great Lakes Naval Base and Recruit Training Command (The United States Navy’s only boot camp.)
ADJACENT TOWNSHIPS
Waukegan Township (north)
Moraine Township (southeast)
West Deerfield Township (south)
Vernon Township (southwest)
Libertyville Township (west)
Warren Township (northwest)
CEMETERIES …
The township contains three cemeteries: Lake Forest and Saint Marys.
MAJOR HIGHWAYS …
U.S. Route 41
Illinois State Route 43
Illinois State Route 60
Illinois State Route 131
Illinois State Route 137
Illinois State Route 176
AIRPORTS AND LANDING STRIPS …
Lake Forest Hospital Heliport
DEMOGRAPHICS …
Population
Census Pop. %±
Est. 2016 39,062
EDUCATION …
Lake Forest College
DEVELOPING …
