Lincolnshire Illinois manages a public works system at the direct expense of the village; it retrieves all of its water from the city of Highland Park, which derives its water from adjacent Lake Michigan.
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18 Facts About Lincolnshire Illinois
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Lincolnshire Illinois area was originally a part of the town of Half Day, the first region settled by non-Native American peoples in Lake County.
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The first white settler in the Lincolnshire Illinois area was Captain Daniel Wright, who arrived in 1834.
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Lincolnshire Illinois organized a residential subdivision out of the ceded town of Half Day and christened it "Lincolnshire", the precursor to the present-day village of the same name.
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Lincolnshire Illinois sought to annex the old remnants of the unincorporated community of Half Day from which it was created, but lost in a court battle with the village of Vernon Hills in 1994; the court case set the present-day border between the two villages, which lies along Route 22 up to its intersection with Milwaukee Avenue.
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In 2005, Buffalo Grove and Lincolnshire Illinois reached a boundary agreement with respect to the allocation of properties surrounding and concerning the unincorporated Prairie View area, which lay in between the two Lake County villages.
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Lincolnshire Illinois is located at 42°11'47? North and 87°55'2? West, and shares a border with the villages of Vernon Hills to the northwest, Buffalo Grove to the southwest, Bannockburn to the east, and Riverwoods to the southeast.
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Half Day Road–Milwaukee Avenue area, which is located near the Lincolnshire Illinois–Vernon Hills border, is a major retail corridor that experiences heavy traffic at peak hours.
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Village of Lincolnshire Illinois holds an annual summer festival, mirroring the more publicized and much larger Taste of Chicago in both nomenclature and intention.
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Lincolnshire Illinois was home to two motion picture performers: Alison LaPlaca, an actress famous for her role as snobbish yuppie Linda Phillips on the sitcom Duet and its spinoff, Open House, is an alumnus of Stevenson High School; and Kyle Brandt, another graduate of Stevenson, who played Philip Kiriakis on the soap opera Days of Our Lives and appears as himself on the reality show The Real World: Chicago.
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Government of Lincolnshire Illinois is constituted as a council-manager form government with elements of home rule, which it adopted via ordinance in 1976.
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Lincolnshire Illinois is served by its own police department, which is based in the village hall.
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Lincolnshire Illinois is served by a number of non-government-funded educational institutions.
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Lincolnshire Illinois has two primary bike paths that cover a large expanse of the village.
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Village of Lincolnshire Illinois negotiated and signed an agreement with the City of Highland Park in 1982 to create a more efficient means of obtaining water by purchasing filtered water from Lake Michigan.
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Lincolnshire Illinois is served by a sanitary sewer that connects to the Lake County Sewage Treatment Plant, which lies on the Des Plaines River outside the Village limits; the disposal of wastewater is left to the government of Lake County rather than the Village of Lincolnshire Illinois itself.
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Village of Lincolnshire Illinois is served by the Northern division of the Waste Management, Inc Midwest Group for solid waste disposal.
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