Twin Lakes, Wisconsin is located on the Illinois state border in scenic Kenosha County, in the Chicago metro area.  Incorporated in 1937, Twin Lakes stakes claim to nearly seven square miles of the southeastern corner of WI.  According to the data from the 2000 Census, Twin Lakes was home to 5,124 citizens.

Water comprises twenty-two percent of the area in Twin Lakes.  Lake Elizabeth and Lake Mary, the “twin lakes”, together contain nearly 1000 acres of water.  Beginning back in the days when ice harvesters flocked to the region, the shimmering waters of the twin lakes and their affiliated resorts became a popular destination for tourists.  No longer an ice harvesting location, Twin Lakes now affords an idyllic recreation spot with 5,300 permanent, year round residents.  Nearly a third more spend only a portion of the year in Twin Lakes.

Located east of US Highway 12, Twin Lakes enjoys a centralized location just twenty-nine miles outside of Kenosha, population 96,845.  Milwaukee lies within forty-two miles of Twin Lakes and Chicago, Illinois is within an hours drive.  Residents have access to excellent health-care via three local medical centers, all within a twenty-mile radius. 

Twin Lakes, within a manufacturing and tourism driven economic region, boasts a wide range of job opportunities.  Major thoroughfares that include Interstate 94 and U.S. Route 45, afford easy access to surrounding business markets, while the pro-business atmosphere helps to energize new and expanding businesses in the area.  Median household incomes in the village were $52,600, well over that of WI or the national average. Commuters average a mean travel time of 35.1 minutes one way.

Twin Lakes boasts a top-notch public school system with access to private parochial schools within a reasonable driving distance.  Twin Lakes enjoys an educationally rich region with nearly fifty institutions for higher learning within a forty-mile radius.  The closest post-secondary facilities to the Twin Lakes community include the College of Lake County, McHenry County College and the University of Saint Mary of the Lake in Lake County, IL.  Colleges in nearby Kenosha include Carthage College, Gateway Technical College and the University of Wisconsin-Parkside.