Lake in the Hills · McHenry County · IL
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Cheswick Place.
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About the community
Lake in the Hills' move-up pocket next to RedTail.
Cheswick Place sits at the northwest edge of Lake in the Hills on Birchwood Court, Fairhaven Court and Lane, Galway Drive, and Gladstone Drive, south of Ackman Road and just below the RedTail Golf Club property in neighboring Lakewood. The houses went up across the second half of the 2000s and into the early 2010s, which means they were designed for what buyers wanted in that moment: four and five bedrooms, nine-foot main-level ceilings, a main-floor office or flex room, three-car garages, and full basements that many owners have since finished. Living areas run from roughly 2,350 to nearly 4,900 square feet on conventional suburban lots. Recent listings here report no monthly HOA assessment, which is unusual for a subdivision of this vintage and price point in McHenry County.
At a glance
Large move-up houses
Roughly 2,350 to 4,900 sqft, with four bedrooms the norm and five common.
No monthly HOA fee
Recent listings report no monthly assessment and no included services. Confirm covenants and any SSA on the tax bill.
Crystal Lake schools
Woods Creek Elementary and Bernotas Middle in District 47, then District 155 for high school. Confirm by address.
Next to RedTail Golf Club
The Village of Lakewood's public 18-hole course borders the area to the north.
Three-car garages
Standard on the plans here, along with full basements and mostly brick-and-vinyl elevations.
Built 2004 to 2012
Construction spanned the housing crash, so the neighborhood filled in over roughly a decade.
Huntley Hospital nearby
Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital on Haligus Road is a few miles south.
Village-run parks
Lake in the Hills has no separate park district. Parks and recreation is a Village department, so there is no extra park levy.
Randall Road corridor
The area's main shopping and dining spine sits a few miles east.
What’s close
Cheswick Place sits on the northwest side of Lake in the Hills near Ackman and Lakewood roads, with Randall Road the main commercial artery to the east.
- Schools
- Crystal Lake CCSD 47 for K-8, with Woods Creek Elementary and Richard F. Bernotas Middle School, then Community High School District 155. Confirm the assigned high school with the district.
- Shopping
- The Randall Road corridor a few miles east, including Algonquin Commons and the big-box anchors along it.
- Hospital
- Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital at 10400 Haligus Road in Huntley, a few miles south, with a 24-hour emergency department.
- Highway
- Randall Road is the main north-south route, with the closest I-90 access at the Randall Road interchange to the south.
- Train
- Metra Union Pacific Northwest into Ogilvie from the Pingree Road or Crystal Lake stations, both a drive away rather than a walk.
- Parks and golf
- Cattail Park and the 125-acre Sunset Park Sports Complex, plus the public RedTail Golf Club course in Lakewood.
What it’s actually like to live here
Cheswick Place reads as a late move-up subdivision rather than a starter neighborhood. The houses went up in the second half of the 2000s on generous lots at the northwest edge of the village, and the plans reflect what buyers wanted then: two-story entries, four and five bedrooms upstairs, a main-floor office or flex room, nine-foot ceilings, a three-car garage, and a full basement that many owners have since finished. Twenty years on, that layout has aged better than most. The square footage is genuinely usable, the basements are tall enough to be real living space, and the floor plans anticipated the home office long before anyone had to.
The setting is the other half of the appeal. The subdivision sits below the RedTail Golf Club property in Lakewood, a public course the neighboring village has owned since the early 1990s, and Cattail Park is close at hand with a playground, basketball, and shelters. Sunset Park Sports Complex, the Village's 125-acre athletic hub with ball fields, tennis, a skate park, and a seasonal splash pad, is a short drive. Because Lake in the Hills runs parks and recreation as a Village department rather than a separate park district, residents get camps, preschool, and after-school programming without a separate park district levy on the tax bill. Northwestern Medicine Huntley Hospital is close enough to matter for a family or for anyone thinking about aging in place.
The tradeoffs are real. This is a car-dependent location: nothing is walkable except the parks, and the two nearest Metra stations are several miles northeast, so a downtown commute means driving to the train rather than walking to it. McHenry County carries one of the higher effective property tax rates in the country, and on a house this size that annual bill is a serious line item worth modeling before you write an offer rather than after. There is no clubhouse, no pool, and no community social calendar, because there is no association collecting for one. That cuts both ways: no monthly dues and no architectural committee, but also no shared amenities and nobody enforcing standards on your neighbors. And the mechanical systems in these houses are hitting the age where roofs, furnaces, air conditioners, and water heaters all come due at roughly the same time. Many have already been replaced. Ask which ones, and get the dates.
Market trends
Why this market moves the way it does
Cheswick Place sits at the upper end of the Lake in the Hills market, competing with Boulder Ridge and the other newer large-home pockets rather than with the village's older lakefront and 1990s sections. Inventory is thin because the subdivision is small and fully built out, so the market here turns on condition, basement finish, and how a specific house compares to the newer construction still going up along the Randall corridor.
What holds value
The fundamentals matter more than the cosmetics here. Buyers want floor plan, lot, and basement, in that order. Cosmetics are the tiebreaker.
- No monthly assessment
- The absence of an HOA fee is a real carrying-cost advantage against comparable large-home subdivisions that charge one, and buyers notice it.
- Size and lot
- Four and five bedroom plans on conventional suburban lots with three-car garages are the product buyers move up into, and that demand is steady.
- Basement finish
- Full basements are standard here, so a finished lower level adds usable space that separates otherwise similar houses.
- Deferred maintenance
- Roofs, furnaces, and air conditioners from the original build are at end of life. Houses with documented replacements sell better than houses without.
- The Crystal Lake school assignment
- These parcels feed the Crystal Lake districts rather than Huntley 158 or District 300, and district preference genuinely moves buyers in this village.
- Golf course proximity
- The RedTail course to the north gives the pocket an open edge rather than backing onto more rooftops.
Real talk
Who shouldn’t buy here
Here is the honest version before you tour.
McHenry County property taxes are among the highest effective rates in the country, and on a house this size the bill is substantial in absolute dollars. Buyers relocating from outside northern Illinois are routinely caught off guard. Pull the actual parcel bill rather than working off a rate estimate, and check whether the exemptions on the seller's bill will carry over to you.
No HOA sounds like a pure win until you realize nobody is enforcing anything either. Walk the block at different times of day, look at how neighbors maintain their exteriors and where they park, and read the recorded declaration and the title commitment. A subdivision can carry covenants with no association collecting money to enforce them, and it is also worth checking whether a Special Service Area appears as a line on the tax bill, since that would not show up as an MLS assessment.
The houses are old enough now that the entire first generation of mechanicals is due. Roofs, furnaces, condensers, water heaters, and sump systems all date to roughly the same window, and with this much finished basement space the sump and its backup deserve specific attention. This is normal for the vintage, not a defect, but it belongs in your budget rather than in a surprise.
One piece of advice
“Cheswick Place gives you a lot of house on a real lot with no monthly assessment attached, which is a genuinely good combination in this village. Just confirm the high school assignment with District 155 directly, since published sources do not agree, check the tax bill for any Special Service Area line, and get the dates on the roof and the mechanicals. Those three answers tell you almost everything you need to know about the specific house.”
The questions buyers actually ask
Cheswick Place FAQ
The questions I get most from buyers shopping Cheswick Place. If yours isn't here, text 224-385-8779, same-day reply.
- What's the typical closing timeline?
- 30 to 60 days from accepted offer to keys. Cash deals can close in two weeks. Conventional financing is usually closer to 60.
- Does Cheswick Place have a homeowners association and monthly dues?
- Recent MLS listings in Cheswick Place report no monthly assessment, with the fee field entered as zero or not applicable and inclusions listed as none. We were not able to identify an active association website, board, or management company for the subdivision. That said, no monthly fee does not guarantee there is no recorded declaration of covenants, and it does not rule out a Special Service Area appearing as a line on the property tax bill. Confirm through the seller's disclosure, the title commitment, and the actual tax bill before closing.
- Which schools serve Cheswick Place?
- Lake in the Hills is split among four school districts, so the answer genuinely depends on the street. For Cheswick Place, available records point to Crystal Lake Community Consolidated School District 47 for elementary and middle school, with Woods Creek Elementary and Richard F. Bernotas Middle School, and Community High School District 155 for high school. These parcels are not in Huntley District 158 or District 300. Published sources disagree on which District 155 high school is assigned, so confirm the current assignment directly with District 47 and District 155 before you rely on it.
- How old are the homes and what should I expect to replace?
- Homes here date from roughly 2004 through 2012, with most of the construction in the 2006 to 2012 window. That puts them squarely in the range where original roofs, furnaces, air conditioning condensers, and water heaters are either recently replaced or coming due. Many owners have already handled these. Ask for the dates on each system, and pay attention to the sump pump and its backup given how much finished basement space these houses carry.
- Can I take the train to Chicago?
- Yes, but you will drive to the station. The Union Pacific Northwest line runs into Ogilvie Transportation Center, and the two nearest stations are Pingree Road and Crystal Lake, both a short drive northeast. There is no walkable transit from the subdivision. For a car commute, Randall Road is the main north-south route and the closest I-90 access is the Randall Road interchange to the south.
- What are property taxes like in Lake in the Hills?
- McHenry County carries one of the higher effective property tax rates in the country. Across Lake in the Hills the effective rate generally runs in the range of roughly 2.4 to 2.8 percent of market value, though the exact composite rate for any parcel depends on which school, fire, library, and township districts it falls in. Illinois assesses at about one third of market value, so the rate printed on the bill is not the same as the effective rate. The McHenry County Clerk publishes the official rate tables and the Treasurer's parcel lookup shows the actual bill history for a specific address.
- What do homes cost in Cheswick Place, and how is the market right now?
- Pricing and market conditions move, so rather than quote a number that goes stale, check the Market snapshot on this page. It pulls live from the MLS and shows what is actually active, what has closed recently, and how quickly homes are moving. In general terms, Cheswick Place sits at the upper end of the Lake in the Hills market alongside the Boulder Ridge communities, which reflects the size of the houses and the mid-2000s construction.
- Who is the real estate agent for Cheswick Place?
- Joe Keegan is the local licensed Illinois real estate broker who covers Cheswick Place in Lake in the Hills, IL through Subdiview, a neighborhood-first home search for the Chicago suburbs and collar counties. Joe prices and negotiates from the live MRED sold comps for Cheswick Place specifically, not national averages, and can help you buy or sell here. Reach Joe at 224-385-8779 or joe@joekeeganhomes.com.
Your local agent
Joe knows Cheswick Place
Most agents will list anything. I focus on the places I actually know, and the things that move value here don't show up in the MLS write-up: which streets and buildings hold demand, what the HOA or assessments really cover, how the comps read once you account for condition and location, and where buyers consistently want to be.
When you're ready to tour or list, you want someone who has read the last 50 closed comps in this specific market, not a national average, and can tell you what they actually mean for your price. That's how I work. Text or call any time, and I'll give you a real take, not a brochure.
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Market snapshot
Cheswick Place, by the numbers
Live MRED data, refreshed daily. The numbers below tell you what this market is doing today, not what Zillow's algorithm thinks it might be doing six weeks from now.
Typical list price
$624,990
Typical sale price · last 90 days
$465,000
Avg time on market
22 days
Sold in the last year
5
This representation is based in whole or in part on data supplied by Midwest Real Estate Data, LLC for the period August 16, 2025 through August 16, 2026. Midwest Real Estate Data, LLC does not guarantee nor is it in any way responsible for its accuracy. Data maintained by Midwest Real Estate Data LLC may not reflect all real estate activity in the market.
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Schools serving Cheswick Place
Where Cheswick Place homes go to school
Homes in Cheswick Place are most often zoned to Crystal Lake Central HS. Open a school to see its area, the district, and every home for sale that feeds it.
School assignment is derived from the school the MRED listing agent entered and is not a guarantee. Always verify current attendance boundaries with the district before writing an offer.
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