Harvard is a city located in McHenry County, Illinois. The population was 9,469 at the 2020 census. The city is 63 miles from the Chicago Loop and it is the last stop on the Union Pacific Northwest Line.
People gathered for the Harvard, Illinois Milk Days Parade. June 2, 2007
Looking southwest on Ayer Street. Downtown Harvard, Illinois
Statue of Harmilda the cow, commemorating Milk Days
Historic Central School, Harvard, Illinois
McHenry County is a county located in the U.S. state of Illinois. According to the 2020 Census, it had a population of 310,229, making it the sixth-most populous county in Illinois. Its county seat is Woodstock. McHenry County is one of the five Illinois collar counties in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI Metropolitan Statistical Area. Long known as a center of recreation along with agriculture in the western portion, it has more recently experienced rapid rates of suburbanization, exurbanization and urbanization, but the western portions of the county remain primarily agricultural and rural.
Old McHenry County Courthouse in Woodstock, Illinois
The Terwilliger House is one of several historical sites in McHenry County
Glacial Park, located in Northeast McHenry County
Woodstock Opera House