Reply #9: No Lynne, it isn't a real house. It was torn down after they filmed the

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movie. As well, there is no swimming allowed in Maple Lake, never has been, at least in my lifetime.

The entire area is owned by the Cook County Forest Preserve District. I could be wrong but a lot of the Forest Preserve land was planted by the CCC during the Depression and there are no "private" residences allowed to be built on Forest Preserve land. There are houses on some Forest Preserve land throughout the County, but I believe they're leased by FP employees that are caretakers and the like.

It's a beautiful area, in fact, I drove right by Maple Lake earlier today on my way home from Lemont. Another interesting note about that particular part of the Cook County Forest Preserve land, about 1 mile from Maple Lake, the nuclear waste from the University of Chicago's and Enrico Fermi's project "splitting the atom" was buried in Redgate Woods.
However, I do believe that particular "nuclear waste" was removed sometime in the mid-90's because it started to leak.