Long Grove · Lake County · IL
Homes for sale in
Indian Creek Club.
- Active listings
- 2
- Median list
- $850K
- Avg time on market
- 24 days
- Sold · last year
- 4
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About the community
A planned-unit neighborhood in a village of estate lots.
Indian Creek Club is the deliberate exception in Long Grove. Most of the village is defined by wooded two-to-five-acre parcels on private wells and septic fields, with roads that have no curbs and no sidewalks. This community was approved as a planned unit development under village ordinance in 1998 and came out of the ground with curbs, sidewalks, street lights, a monument entry and quarter-acre-scale homesites laid out off Midlothian Road. It runs to roughly 140 homes across sections recorded as Indian Creek Club, Forest Edge and Insignia Green, all sharing common ground under one association. Despite the name there is no golf or country club attached to it; Indian Creek is the stream the neighborhood is named for.
At a glance
Roughly 140 homes
Detached single-family only, built between 1998 and 2003 across the Indian Creek Club, Forest Edge and Insignia Green sections.
Public water and sewer
Served by Lake County Public Works rather than the private wells and septic common elsewhere in Long Grove.
High school splits in two
Stevenson District 125 on the Ela Township side, Mundelein District 120 on the Fremont side. Confirm by address.
Fremont District 79 for K-8
Every home in the community feeds Fremont Elementary, Intermediate and Middle on the Mundelein campus.
No village property tax
The Village of Long Grove levies no municipal property tax and shows a rate of zero on the bill.
Open space and a path
Two outlots of roughly four and a half and five acres plus smaller lettered outlots, with a walking path residents use daily.
Ponds and wetland
Several ponds sit inside the community, and some homes back to protected wetland buffer rather than to another house.
Sidewalks and street lights
Unusual for Long Grove and a genuine differentiator from the village's estate-lot streets.
Mundelein Park District
The community pays into and is served by Mundelein Park and Recreation, not the Long Grove Park District.
What’s close
The neighborhood sits in the far northwest corner of Long Grove off Midlothian Road just north of Gilmer Road, with day-to-day services pointing toward Mundelein rather than toward the village's historic downtown.
- Inside the neighborhood
- Common-ground outlots, a walking path, and several ponds, with some lots backing to protected wetland buffer.
- Shopping
- Downtown Mundelein about three miles north, with the Hawthorn Mall and Vernon Hills retail corridor roughly six miles east and Deer Park Town Center about seven.
- Hospital
- Advocate Condell Medical Center in Libertyville, a Level I trauma center, roughly seven and a half miles away.
- Highway
- Illinois Route 60/83 and Route 22 are the main east-west connections, with I-94 about eleven miles east. There is no expressway within roughly ten miles.
- Train
- Mundelein station on the North Central Service about three and a half miles away, weekdays only. Libertyville on the Milwaukee District North line is about seven miles.
- Schools
- Fremont District 79 for K-8 on the Mundelein campus, then either Stevenson in Lincolnshire or Mundelein High School depending on the address.
What it’s actually like to live here
Indian Creek Club was built to feel like a neighborhood in a village that generally does not have them. Long Grove is estate lots, gravel shoulders and long private drives; this community has curbs, sidewalks, street lights and a monument entry, on homesites measured in fractions of an acre rather than in multiples. The houses went up between 1998 and 2003 in a familiar late-1990s vocabulary of two-story colonials and transitional plans with three-car garages, two-story foyers, first-floor family rooms and full basements that a large share of owners have since finished. What that combination buys is a social, walkable street grid at a price of entry below what a comparable Long Grove estate parcel commands.
The setting is genuinely pretty and it was planned that way. The plat set aside a meaningful amount of common ground, including two outlots of roughly four and a half and five acres plus a series of smaller lettered outlots, and a walking path threads through them. Several ponds sit inside the community, Indian Creek runs through the area and is classified by the county as a high-quality stream within a designated wetland site, so a number of homes back to protected buffer instead of to another rear elevation. Daily life points toward Mundelein: the park district is Mundelein Park and Recreation, the fire district is Countryside, and the groceries and errands are three miles north rather than eight miles southeast. The covered bridge and the fall festivals of historic downtown Long Grove are close enough to enjoy and far enough that you do not live in the tourist traffic.
The tradeoffs are real and worth naming. The lots are small by Long Grove standards, so a buyer arriving with a mental image of three wooded acres should recalibrate, because the appeal here is the neighborhood fabric rather than the acreage. The high school assignment splits down the middle of the subdivision along the Ela and Fremont township line, and the difference between Stevenson District 125 and Mundelein District 120 is one many families care a great deal about, so the specific address matters and must be verified. That same line drives a measurably higher tax rate on the Stevenson side. Commuting is the weak point, with no expressway within roughly ten miles and the nearest station on a weekday-only line. And the housing stock is about a quarter century old, so roofs, furnaces, windows and original kitchens are all inside their replacement windows.
Market trends
Why this market moves the way it does
Indian Creek Club sits at the more attainable end of the Long Grove market because these are production homes on modest lots rather than custom houses on estate acreage. Two variables move price here more than anything else: which high school district the address falls in, and how comprehensively the home has been updated.
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.
- Which side of the township line
- Stevenson District 125 addresses and Mundelein District 120 addresses draw different buyer pools, and the split runs through the middle of three streets.
- Condition and updating
- The stock is roughly a quarter century old, so a comprehensively renovated home and an original-finishes home of the same size can be far apart.
- Public water and sewer
- Lake County Public Works service removes the well and septic diligence that complicates much of the rest of Long Grove.
- No village property tax
- The Village of Long Grove levies nothing, which meaningfully softens an otherwise high Lake County bill.
- Lot position
- Homes backing to a pond, to the common-ground outlots or to protected wetland buffer carry a premium over interior lots.
Real talk
Who shouldn’t buy here
Here is the honest version before you tour.
Do not assume the high school. This subdivision straddles the Ela and Fremont township line, and the boundary literally cuts through Cripple Creek Drive, Boulder Court and Breckenridge Drive. Roughly four out of five homes fall on the Stevenson District 125 side and the rest go to Mundelein District 120. Both are real options and families feel strongly about the difference, so confirm the assignment for the exact address with the district before you write an offer rather than trusting a listing sheet.
The Stevenson side costs more to hold. The composite tax rate on the Ela Township side runs meaningfully higher than on the Fremont side, and the gap is driven almost entirely by the high school levy. Two nearly identical homes on opposite sides of the same court can carry noticeably different bills. On the other side of the ledger, the Village of Long Grove itself levies no municipal property tax at all, which is unusual in Illinois and shows as a zero on the bill.
Recalibrate on lot size, and read the association documents. If you are shopping Long Grove because you pictured wooded acreage, this is not that; the appeal is sidewalks, a path and neighbors. On the association, the assessment is modest because the village maintains and plows the interior streets, but what the dues actually fund is not published anywhere verifiable. Ask for the declaration, the current budget, the reserve study and the 22.1 disclosure, and pay attention to how the stormwater ponds are funded.
One piece of advice
“Indian Creek Club gets you a real neighborhood, public water and sewer, and a shot at a Stevenson address without buying five acres of Long Grove. The whole deal turns on two questions: which side of the township line the house sits on, and whether the mechanicals and finishes have been brought forward. Answer both in writing and this is a strong buy.”
The questions buyers actually ask
Indian Creek Club FAQ
The questions I get most from buyers shopping Indian Creek Club. If yours isn't here, text 224-385-8779, same-day reply.
- How much is the HOA?
- Single-family homes are $125 per month.
- What does the HOA actually cover?
- A mandatory association bills monthly, with reported assessments in the low to mid one hundreds. What the assessment covers is not published in any verifiable source, though the community's layout points to common-area landscaping, the open-space outlots and path, and the stormwater ponds. The interior streets are public and are maintained and plowed by the Village of Long Grove, which is why the assessment stays modest. Request the declaration, budget, reserve study and the 22.1 disclosure for the specific home.
- What are property taxes like?
- Roughly $14,000 – $20,000 per year, depending on home size and value. Lake County assessor records are the source of truth. Happy to pull a specific bill on any home you're considering.
- 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.
- Which high school serves Indian Creek Club?
- It depends on the specific address, and this is the most common point of confusion here. The subdivision straddles the Ela and Fremont township line. The Ela Township portion, which includes Connor Drive, Danneil Circle and Court, Insignia Court, Orchard Commons, Orchard Court, Vail Court and most of Cripple Creek Drive, is assigned to Adlai E. Stevenson High School District 125 in Lincolnshire. The Fremont Township portion, including most of Boulder Court and most of Breckenridge Drive, is assigned to Mundelein Consolidated High School District 120. Elementary and middle school is Fremont School District 79 for every home with no exceptions. Because the boundary cuts through three streets, verify the exact address with the district.
- Is the subdivision on well and septic like much of Long Grove?
- No. Every home in Indian Creek Club is on public water and public sanitary sewer, both owned and operated by the Lake County Public Works Department. The water comes from the county's Countryside Lake deep-well system rather than Lake Michigan, and the sewer is the county's central retail system. That makes the community an exception in Long Grove, where the village does not own a sanitary sewer system and many residences run on private septic. Water and sewer are billed by the county as a separate utility, not on the property tax bill.
- Is there a homeowners association and what does it cost?
- Yes, membership is mandatory and assessments are billed monthly. The amount is modest by suburban standards, which fits a community where the interior streets are public and are maintained and plowed by the Village of Long Grove rather than by the association. What the assessment covers is not published in any source we can verify, so we will not guess at it. Ask for the declaration, the current budget, the reserve study, the rules and the 22.1 disclosure before you go firm. Because a common-area outlot is recorded as common ground for all sections, the Indian Creek Club, Forest Edge and Insignia Green sections appear to share amenities under one master association.
- What are the property taxes like?
- Plan on an effective rate in the range of roughly 2.0 to 2.4 percent of market value, which is typical for this part of Lake County. The composite rate runs meaningfully higher on the Ela Township and Stevenson District 125 side than on the Fremont Township and Mundelein District 120 side, with the gap driven almost entirely by the high school levy. One pleasant surprise: the Village of Long Grove levies no municipal property tax at all and shows a rate of zero on the bill, making it one of a small minority of Illinois municipalities that fund operations through sales tax, permits and fees instead. Your actual bill depends on your assessment and exemptions.
- Is there a golf course or a country club?
- No, and the name misleads people regularly. There is no golf course, clubhouse or country club associated with this subdivision. Indian Creek is the stream the community is named for, and the county classifies it as a high-quality stream within a designated wetland site. Shared amenities are the common-ground outlots, the walking path and the ponds. Countryside Golf Club in Mundelein is roughly three miles away, but it is a separate public facility with no connection to the association. We could not verify a community pool or clubhouse and would not expect one at this assessment level.
- How is the commute, and can I take the train?
- You can, with a caveat. The closest station is Mundelein, about ten minutes away on Metra's North Central Service. That line runs weekdays only, with no weekend or major-holiday service and roughly seven trains in each direction per day. Riders who need more frequency or weekend service usually drive about fifteen minutes to the Libertyville station on the Milwaukee District North line. By car, Route 60/83 and Route 22 are the main east-west connections and I-94 is roughly twenty minutes east. There is no expressway close by, which is part of why the area stays quiet and also the thing to test drive at rush hour before buying.
- Who is the real estate agent for Indian Creek Club?
- Joe Keegan is the local licensed Illinois real estate broker who covers Indian Creek Club in Long Grove, 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 Indian Creek Club 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 Indian Creek Club
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
Indian Creek Club, 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
$849,950
Typical sale price · last 90 days
$702,500
Homes for sale right now
2
Avg time on market
24 days
Sold in the last year
4
This representation is based in whole or in part on data supplied by Midwest Real Estate Data, LLC for the period August 17, 2025 through August 17, 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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Where Indian Creek Club homes go to school
Homes in Indian Creek Club are most often zoned to Mundelein 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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