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Eagle Lake is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Will County, Illinois, United States. It is near the southeast corner of the county, in the northeast corner of Washington Township. It is 5 miles (8 km) northeast of Beecher and 1.5 miles (2.4 km) west of the Indiana state line. As of the 2020 census, Eagle Lake had a population of 76. Eagle Lake was first listed as a CDP prior to the 2020 census.
Its first post office opened in 1865.
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The history of Will County, Illinois, containing a history of the county ... a directory of its real estate owners1878 · page 649Read the page →
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Eagle Lake is a little village in the northeast part of the township, on the margin of the little body of water of the same name. It is not a regularly laid out town, but the lots have been sold by the description of "corners and.
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Souvenir of settlement and progress of Will County, Ill. A review of the lives of our presidents, political, military and commercial history of the United States and of the state of Illinois ... Business directory of Joliet ... Comp. specially for the peo1884 · page 453Read the page →
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The centers of settlement in the township are Eagle Lake, Washington Centre and the village of Beecher. The Beecher VolksUatt was founded May 26, 1882, by Louis Metterhausen, a native of Gilten, Hanover, who settled in this county in 1869. The Volksblatt is printed in German, good type, and has a weekly circulation of 700.
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Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →
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