Round Lake, Illinois

**Round Lake** is a northern suburb of Chicago in Lake County, Illinois, United States. The population was 18,721 in 2020. It is in west-central Lake County and is a part of Avon, Fremont, and Grant townships. It’s immediate neighbors are Grayslake/Hainesville to the east, Volo to the west, Round Lake Beach to the north, and Mundelein/Wauconda to the southeast and southwest respectively. It is in close proximity to major retail hubs such as Libertyville (7mi to the ESE), Gurnee (8 mi to the ESE) and Vernon Hills (8.5 mi to the SE). The town is 12 mi west of Lake Michigan and 8 mi west of Interstate 94. The towns distance from the Loop in Chicago is approximately 38 mi as the crow flies. Round Lake is a stop on the Milwaukee District North Metra Commuter Line and is 2.5 mi west of the Waukesha Subdivision Canadian Nation Railroad and the North Central Service Metra commuter Line. The NCS line stops In Mundelein, Grayslake, and Round Lake Beach before continuing to the line’s terminus in Antioch. Round Lake is within approximately a 1 hour driving radius to major destinations such as Chicago, Milwaukee, Rockford, Kenosha, Racine, Lake Geneva, and all Northern, NW, and  Western suburbs of Chicago. Within less than a 30 minute radius is McHenry, Barrington, Palatine, Buffalo Grove, The Affluent North Shore towns of Lake County (Lake Forest, Highland Park, Lake Bluff, Highwood, ft Sheridan, etc,) Waukegan, Antioch, Fox Lake, parts of Crystal Lake, and Deerfield. It is also a short distance of less than 11 miles to Kenosha County, Cook county, and McHenry County.

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Round Lake, Illinois
- **other name**: 60073
- **settlement type**: List of towns and villages in Illinois, Village
- **image map**: File:Lake County Illinois Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Round Lake Highlighted.svg
- **map caption**: Location of Round Lake in Lake County, Illinois.
- **image map1**: Illinois in United States (US48).svg
- **map caption1**: Location of Illinois in the United States
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision name**: United States
- **subdivision type1**: State
- **subdivision name1**: Illinois
- **subdivision type2**: County
- **subdivision name2**: Lake County, Illinois, Lake County
- **subdivision type3**: Township
- **subdivision name3**: Avon, Grant & Fremont
- **established title**: Founded
- **established date**: 1908
- **leader title**: Mayor
- **leader name**: Russell S. Kraly
- **leader title1**: Village president
- **unit pref**: Imperial
- **area total km2**: 14.81
- **area total sq mi**: 5.72
- **area land km2**: 14.40
- **area land sq mi**: 5.56
- **area water km2**: 0.41
- **area water sq mi**: 0.16
- **population as of**: 2020 United States Census, 2020
- **population total**: 18721
- **population density km2**: 1300.14
- **population density sq mi**: 3367.09
- **population demonym**: Round Laker
- **timezone1**: North American Central Time Zone, CST
- **utc offset1**: -6
- **timezone1 dst**: North American Central Time Zone, CDT
- **utc offset1 dst**: -5
- **postal code type**: ZIP code, ZIP Code(s)
- **postal code**: 60073
- **area codes**: Area code 847 and 224, 224, 847
- **blank name**: Federal Information Processing Standards, FIPS code
- **blank info**: 17-66027
- **blank2 name sec2**: Wikimedia Commons
- **blank2 info sec2**: Round Lake, Illinois