Talk:Chain O'Lakes

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified 5 one external links on Chain O'Lakes. Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090815071224/http://dnr.state.il.us:80/LANDS/landmgt/PARKS/R2/CHAINO.HTM to http://dnr.state.il.us/LANDS/landmgt/Parks/R2/CHAINO.HTM
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20100302003848/http://www.foxlake.org:80/General%20Information.htm to http://www.foxlake.org/General%20Information.htm
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090725052241/http://www.chainolakes.com:80/community/lake_info to http://www.chainolakes.com/community/lake_info
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20090731030512/http://www.blarneyisland.com:80/about.php to http://www.blarneyisland.com/about.php
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20091015005936/http://www.mineolamarine.com:80/banquet.shtml to http://www.mineolamarine.com/banquet.shtml

When you have finished reviewing my changes, please set the checked parameter below to true or failed to let others know (documentation at ).

Cheers.— InternetArchiveBot  (Report bug) 01:17, 19 November 2016 (UTC)

History
The Geography section makes the dubious claim that only Grass Lake, Lake Marie and Nippersink Lake are natural (implying that the others are man-made). There is no discussion of how or when the river was impounded to create the other lakes.

I notice the Illinois DNR website for Chain O'Lakes State Park (Illinois) states that Grass, Marie and Nippersink are three natural lakes bordering the park, so maybe this is the origin of the statement, and some other lakes are in fact natural?

I recently encountered an 1872 McHenry County Land Ownership Map (behind paywall on ancestry.com) shows "Pistaka" lake with similar shorelines (but apparently somewhat lower level as the islands are larger). This would suggest that Pistakee is at least that old, which is older than the Stratton Lock and Dam downstream (built 1907). --Theodore Kloba (talk) 18:40, 27 June 2017 (UTC) My guess is that all of the lakes are natural although they may have been smaller and shallower before damming.  North8000  (talk) 02:22, 28 June 2017 (UTC)