Lake County has 31 independent taxing entities that include:

• 18 Townships
• 52 municipalities
• 48 school districts
• 20 park districts
• 24 fire protection districts
• 1 County government
• 1 County Forest Preserve District
• 143 other tax entities (Districts for: road and bridge, mosquito abatement, sanitary sewer, special service areas, water agencies and drainage)

Cities and Villages			Townships
Antioch	Island Lake	Port Barrington	Antioch Township
Bannockburn	Kildeer	Riverwoods	Avon Township
Barrington	Lake Barrington	Round Lake	Benton Township
Barrington Hills	Lake Bluff	Round Lake Beach	Cuba Township
Beach Park	Lake Forest	Round Lake Heights	Ela Township
Buffalo Grove	Lake Villa	Round Lake Park	Fremont Township
Deer Park	Lake Zurich	Third Lake	Grant Township
Deerfield	Lakemoor	Tower Lakes	Lake Villa Township
Fox Lake	Libertyville	Vernon Hills	Libertyville Township
Fox River Grove	Lincolnshire	Volo	Moraine Township
Grayslake	Lindenhurst	Wadsworth	Newport Township
Green Oaks	Long Grove	Wauconda	Shields Township
Gurnee	Mettawa	Waukegan	Vernon Township
Hainesville	Mundelein	Wheeling	Warren Township
Hawthorn Woods	North Barrington	Winthrop Harbor	Wauconda Township
Highland Park	North Chicago	Zion	Waukegan Township
Highwood	Old Mill Creek		West Deerfield Township
Indian Creek	Park City		Zion Township