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Chain O'Lakes
The Chain O'Lakes is a waterway system in northeast Illinois composed of 15 lakes connected by the Fox River and man-made channels. Encompassing more than of water, of shoreline and of river, the Chain is the busiest inland recreational waterway per acre in the United States.〔("Fox Waterway Agency" ) ''Fox Waterway Agency.'' 2007. 〕 Located on the border of Lake County and McHenry County, about an hour's drive from the cities of Chicago, Milwaukee, and Rockford, the lakes are popular with boaters and fishermen drawing weekend crowds of 30,000 and holiday crowds of 100,000 people.〔("Chain O'Lakes." ) ''Antioch Chamber of Commerce.'' 2009. 〕 Additionally, the Chain O'Lakes includes Chain O'Lakes State Park which borders three lakes at the Northwest corner of the system.〔("Chain O'Lakes - State Park." ) ''Illinois Department of Natural Resources.'' 2009. 〕 The Fox Waterway Agency, a special local governing body, is responsible for oversight of the Chain O'Lakes.〔
==Geography==
The Chain O'Lakes is composed of ten lakes connected by the Fox River and another five lakes by small canals and channels (with limited access).〔〔("Exploring the Outdoors." ) ''McHenry County Convention and Visitors Bureau.'' 2006. 〕 Of the ten lakes connected by the Fox River, three of the lakes are natural lakes. The three natural lakes are Grass Lake, Lake Marie and Nippersink Lake. The other seven lakes connected by the Fox River are Bluff Lake, Fox Lake, Pistakee Lake, Channel Lake, Petite Lake, Lake Catherine and Redhead Lake.〔 The remaining five lakes of the system are Duck Lake, Long Lake, Spring Lake, Dunns Lake and Brandenburg Lake.
The Chain O'Lakes system begins at the Illinois/ Wisconsin border. The Fox River travels down near the border between McHenry County and Lake County in Illinois as it flows from the state border to the first lake in the Chain, Grass Lake. Grass Lake is the shallowest lake on the Chain with an average depth of . Grass Lake is also the third largest lake on the Chain, with an approximate area of . Pistakee Lake and Fox Lake are the two largest lakes on the Chain, each with an area of . Grass Lake directly connects to Fox Lake and both lakes connect to Pistakee Lake through Nippersink Lake. The Fox River exits the Chain O'Lakes at the southwest corner of Pistakee Lake.〔
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