The following public bodies of water were navigable in their natural condition or were improved for navigation and opened to public use. The entire length and surface area in Illinois, including all backwater lakes and sloughs open to the main channel or body of water at normal flows or stages, which are open to the public.
1. Fox River (Illinois River Basin)
2. Fox Chain-O-Lakes (Lake and McHenry Counties): Bluff Lake, Lake Catherine, Channel Lake, Fox Lake, Grass Lake, Lake Marie, Nippersink Lake, Dunns Lake, Pistakee Lake, Lake Jerilyn, Lac Louette, Redhead Lake;
3. Griswold Lake including the connecting channel to the Fox River.
The following public bodies of water are navigable waters that were dedicated to public use. This list is incomplete. It is believed there are numerous channels and slips in subdivisions on the margins of public bodies of water which have been dedicated by plat. Additional channels and slips have been dedicated by common law.
1. No list for McHenry County.
NOTE: The above lists are provided by IDNR/OWR. An IDNR/OWR permit is required for regulated development within the listed waterways and adjacent wetlands.
(Ord. O-2020-09-15, passed 9-15-2020)