1960 Map of Libertyville

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The Des Plaines River corridor in Lake County is captured here during a period of significant suburban expansion and institutional development. The landscape is characterized by its large-scale religious and educational complexes, such as the sprawling St Marys of the Lake Seminary and the St Sava Monastery. To the east, the Great Lakes Naval Training Center signals the military footprint near the lakeshore. Transportation is a defining feature of this 1960 era, with the recently established Tri-State Tollway cutting north-south across the quadrangle, intersecting a dense web of older rail lines like the Chicago and North Western and the Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee. Small residential developments like Wildwood and Idlewild contrast with the established centers of Libertyville and Mundelein, where local services including the Condell Memorial Hospital and numerous neighborhood schools like Rockland Sch are clearly marked.