Lake Township (Town of Lake)

CTL-E-0922 · Institution · other · unspecified

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Lake Township was a 42-square-mile township annexed to Chicago in 1889 under the April 25, 1889 annexation act.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PLACE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PLACE-001:PLACE-003; source research type(s): historical municipality. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

Illinois Supreme Court via vLex (primary legal record) (primary source)

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