Roughly 700 acres of land at Ivanhoe Farms along Route 60 in unincorporated Mundelein could be turned into a major housing and commercial development after the Wirtz family — which owns the Chicago Blackhawks — has proposed a project to the village.
Chicago Blackhawks owner Rocky Wirtz at the announcement of Luke Richardson as the new head coach, Wednesday, June 29, 2022.
The Mundelein Village Board will consider a proposal by the Wirtz family to annex the land into the village at its Dec. 12 meeting.Village Administrator Eric Guenther said that if the property is annexed, the owners could access resources like sewer and water services by being a part of the village, rather than having to find alternative options if it remained unincorporated territory.
“There are lots of reasons why a property owner would annex into a city’s city limits, and that’s one of them, so they have decided that’s what they’d like to do,” Guenther said. “That doesn’t mean they have to do anything with their property, quite honestly.“They could leave it, they could farm it, they could do whatever they want to and it’s up to them,” he said. “They just have indicated to us that they choose to look at a development on their property.
The Wirtz family has owned the massive parcel for more than 150 years, according to Ivanhoe Nursery and Farms’ website and
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