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A village of about 1,030 at the crossroads of Routes 47 and 64 in Campton Township—estate lots, acreage, and open Kane County countryside, with the Great Western Trail running right through town. Homes here trade in single digits per year, and land is usually part of the story.
Lily Lake is a village of 1,032 people spread across 2.72 square miles of western Campton Township, Kane County—which tells you the density story right away: this is a community of homes on land, not blocks. It sits at the junction of Route 47 and Route 64, with Campton Hills immediately east, Virgil to the west, Elburn about six miles south, downtown St. Charles nine miles east, and the Loop roughly 50 miles away. There’s no retail strip and no stoplight grid—the fire station, the grade school, two historic churches, and the cemetery anchor the crossroads, and the rest is homes, horse fencing, and farmland.
The history goes back further than most of the subdivisions I sell in. The settlement was called Canada Corners—named for settlers from New Brunswick who arrived starting in 1836—before taking the name of the small lake north of the crossroads. The Congregational Church went up in 1872, four one-room schools consolidated into Lily Lake School in 1918, and the village cemetery holds veterans back to the Revolutionary War. The lake itself, once about 12 acres, has receded into a pond and wetland that now works as an aquifer recharge area. Incorporation came late—December 1990—driven by residents organizing against a proposed landfill. Like its neighbors in Campton Township, Lily Lake incorporated to control its own land use, and it shows in what the village has stayed: rural.
Here’s what matters practically if you want to buy here: the market is thin and the homes are substantial. MLS-fed data through June 2026 puts the rolling three-month median at $582,000 on just three closings—read that as a marker, not a market. Homes have been going under contract in about 12 median days at essentially full list price, around $274 per square foot. Inventory sits in the low single digits at any given moment, and “zero active listings” is a normal state. One more wrinkle: Lily Lake has no ZIP code of its own. Addresses carry Maple Park (60151) or St. Charles (60175) ZIPs, so listing portals routinely scatter Lily Lake properties under neighboring town names.
Who fits here? Buyers who want an acre or several, a workshop or horse setup, dark skies, and a custom or estate-scale home—without leaving the St. Charles orbit. The trade-offs are the rural ones: private wells and septic on many parcels, propane heat on some, patience required on the search. Nobody lands in Lily Lake by accident, and the people who live here like it that way.
The crossroads is the commute story. Route 64 begins its run east right here—a straight shot through Wasco into downtown St. Charles in about 15 minutes, continuing to the Randall Road corridor. Route 47 runs north–south through the village: the I-88 interchange near Sugar Grove is roughly 15 minutes south, and I-90 at Hampshire about 15 minutes north, which puts both tollways in play. For the train, the Metra UP-W terminus in Elburn is about a 10–12 minute drive, with La Fox and Geneva stations as alternates down Route 38. It’s a genuine exurban position—but a better-connected one than most villages this size.
Lily Lake is a thin, land-driven market—a handful of sales a year, most with acreage attached. Here’s how to read it as of summer 2026.
The rolling three-month median through June 2026, built on just three recorded closings—down about 2.2% year over year. With volume this thin, the median is a marker, not a market: every Lily Lake property gets priced on its land, improvements, and outbuildings, and single sales can swing the number $100K in either direction.
Median days to contract in the most recent data, with sales closing at essentially full list price—well-priced properties here have been moving quickly, and the strongest have drawn multiple offers and gone pending within days. The caveat is the same as everywhere on this page: a few sales set the stat, so expect wide swings either way.
The recent average for Lily Lake closings. It runs above most of western Kane County’s subdivision stock because of what’s being sold: custom and estate-scale homes on acreage, where land value and outbuildings ride along in the price. Use it as a rough gauge only—per-foot math breaks down fast on rural parcels.
Active listings at any given moment number in the low single digits—and zero is a normal reading. A village of about 360 households simply doesn’t generate steady turnover. Serious buyers here work off early alerts, map-based searches, and off-market outreach rather than waiting on portal notifications.
Kane County’s overall effective rate runs about 2.49% with a median bill near $6,802; the Campton Hills area next door averages closer to 2.03%. Established rural parcels around Lily Lake typically sit outside the Special Service Areas that add fees in newer subdivisions—but bills on larger estate properties run well above the county median, so we pull the actual tax bill on every parcel.
Lily Lake has no ZIP code of its own—village addresses carry Maple Park (60151) or St. Charles (60175) ZIPs, and the grade school in the village even lists a Maple Park address. Portals sort by mailing address, so Lily Lake properties get scattered under three or four town names and priced against the wrong comps. A map-based search is the only honest way to shop here.
There are no conventional subdivisions in Lily Lake—the village is estate lots, acreage, and countryside. Here’s how the local landscape actually breaks down.
The historic core at Route 47 and Empire Road—the old Canada Corners—anchored by the fire station, Lily Lake Grade School, the 1872 Congregational Church, and the village cemetery. Original village homes on generous lots cluster here, and they surface for sale only rarely.
Search Lily Lake Homes →North of the crossroads, Wooley Road runs past the village’s namesake—once a 12-acre lake, now a pond and wetland that recharges the local aquifer—with Great Western Trail parking just off Route 47. Homes here sit on acreage with the trail and open water views close by.
Browse Acreage →East of Route 47, Empire Road carries some of the area’s most substantial properties—custom and estate-scale homes and small farmettes on multi-acre parcels, running toward the Campton Hills line. This corridor is where much of Lily Lake’s higher-dollar activity happens.
Browse Luxury & Custom →The farmland and large tracts surrounding the village—buildable parcels and land holdings that trade periodically, from single homesites to double-digit acreage. Zoning, drainage tile, and ag assessments all matter out here; we walk buyers through each one before an offer.
Browse Land →Route 64 east leads straight into Campton Hills—Lily Lake’s larger neighbor, with more housing turnover across similar estate and acreage stock—and on through Wasco to downtown St. Charles. Most Lily Lake buyers should be watching both markets at once.
Explore Campton Hills →About six miles south, Elburn brings the everyday errands—Jewel-Osco, Reams Meat Market, downtown restaurants—plus the Metra UP-W terminus. Housing turnover picks up meaningfully there, including new construction, making it the natural fallback when Lily Lake inventory sits at zero.
Explore Elburn →Active MLS listings in the Lily Lake area, updated in real time. Fair warning: in a village this small, “no results” is the normal state—and the address wrinkle means some Lily Lake properties list under Maple Park or St. Charles. When the carousel is empty, the smart move is to have us watch the map and the off-market channels for you.
Lily Lake sits within Central Community Unit School District 301, a PreK–12 district headquartered in Burlington—and the district operates an elementary school right in the village. These are the facts; assignment always depends on the parcel’s attendance boundary.
The village’s own elementary campus, on Empire Road at the crossroads—its roots go back to the 1918 consolidation of four one-room schools. Note the address wrinkle: the school carries a Maple Park mailing address despite sitting in Lily Lake.
Prairie Knolls Middle School serves grades 6–7 and Central Middle School serves grade 8. Both draw students from across the district’s communities, including Lily Lake.
The district high school in Burlington, serving all of Central 301’s territory across western Kane County.
Headquartered at 275 South Street in Burlington, the district operates seven schools serving roughly 5,000 students across Burlington, Lily Lake, and portions of Elgin, Campton Hills, St. Charles, and Pingree Grove, plus unincorporated Plato Center and surrounding township areas.
Note: District and attendance boundaries in rural Kane County do not follow village limits—some parcels near Lily Lake fall under Kaneland CUSD 302 or St. Charles CUSD 303, and boundaries change. Always verify the current school assignment for any specific address directly with the district before you buy—our team confirms this on every Lily Lake-area showing.
The 18-mile crushed-limestone trail between LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve in St. Charles and Sycamore runs straight through Lily Lake—trail parking sits on Wooley Road just off Route 47, and the fire station offers a bike pump, water station, and picnic table for riders passing through. Few villages this size have a regional trail out the front door.
This is the draw. Estate lots, horse fencing, working farmland, and genuinely dark night skies—the setting the Randall Road corridor gave up decades ago, twenty minutes from it. If you want acreage, animals, a workshop, or distance from your nearest neighbor, this is what Lily Lake sells.
The village’s landmarks tell its story: the 1872 Congregational Church, Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church from 1894, the 1918 Lily Lake School building, and the village cemetery—where a 30-foot granite monument, placed in 1902, honors Revolutionary War veteran Abner Powers.
The namesake lake—once 12 acres, now a quiet pond and wetland—works as an aquifer recharge area and a reminder of what drew settlers here. LeRoy Oakes Forest Preserve anchors the trail’s east end in St. Charles, with the Elburn Forest Preserve and the Campton Hills preserve network a short drive away.
Kuipers Family Farm’s orchard and pumpkin seasons and Acquaviva Winery’s vineyard both sit near Maple Park, roughly ten minutes southwest—and seasonal farm stands fill in the calendar closer to home. This corner of Kane County does agritourism without the crowds.
Downtown St. Charles—restaurants, the Arcada Theatre, the Fox River—is about 15 minutes east on Route 64. Groceries run through Elburn (Jewel-Osco, Reams Meat Market) about ten minutes south, with the Randall Road corridor’s big-box retail roughly 20 minutes out.
Every Lily Lake buyer I’ve worked with wanted some version of the same thing: real land and privacy inside the St. Charles orbit. The village delivers acreage, dark skies, and a regional trail through town, with Route 64 putting downtown St. Charles 15 minutes away and two tollways within 15 minutes on Route 47. What it asks in return is patience—inventory is nearly zero—and comfort with rural practicalities. Nobody lands here by accident.
The recent median sale is $582K, but that’s three closings talking—Lily Lake properties range from village homes on generous lots to estate properties and farmettes well past $1M, priced on land and outbuildings as much as square footage. Kane County’s effective tax rate runs about 2.49% (median bill near $6,802); established rural parcels typically avoid SSA fees, though bills on larger estates run well above the median. Fuel and drive time are the hidden line items.
Many properties in and around the village run on private well and septic—budget for inspections on both, because they’re the two most expensive surprises in rural transactions. Heating may be propane rather than natural gas, and internet options genuinely vary parcel to parcel, so we verify utilities per address before anyone writes an offer. None of this should scare you off; it just needs to be priced in.
Your groceries will come from Elburn or the St. Charles corridor, your commute will run through Route 64, Route 47, or the Elburn Metra terminus, and Northwestern Medicine Delnor Hospital in Geneva is about 20 minutes out. In exchange: a village of about 1,030 where the trail, the skies, and the land set the pace—one of the last genuinely rural addresses left this close to the Tri-Cities in Kane County.
Our office is at 201 E Veterans Parkway in Yorkville, straight down Route 47. We work the 47 corridor from Yorkville through Sugar Grove and Elburn to Campton Township constantly—we know which Lily Lake-area parcels have sold quietly, which owners might entertain an offer, and what acreage actually trades for out here.
Estate lots, farmettes, and rural residential deals run on details subdivisions never see: wells and septic, ag assessments, drainage tile, easements, zoning, and outbuilding value. We handle these transactions across the Fox Valley’s farm townships and bring that checklist to every Lily Lake showing.
In a village where almost nothing lists publicly—and where what does list often carries a Maple Park or St. Charles address—waiting on the MLS is a strategy for missing out. For committed buyers we run map-based searches, watch township parcel activity, and approach owners directly.
With a handful of comps and huge variation between them, automated estimates are useless here—the split-ZIP wrinkle makes them worse. We build valuations from parcel-level detail: land, improvements, outbuildings, and the right comp set, so sellers don’t leave money on the table and buyers don’t overpay.
Professional photography, strategic pricing, targeted marketing, contract negotiation, and closing coordination—the same full stack we bring to every listing, tuned for rural properties where drone photography and land documentation actually move the sale.
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