The Wirtz family’s plan to develop 740 acres of farmland in Lake County cleared its first big hurdle last night, when the Mundelein Village Board approved a proposal to annex the property.

The Wirtz family has owned the massive parcel, called Ivanhoe Farms, for more than 150 years, according to Ivanhoe Nursery and Farms’ website and Wirtzcorp.com.

Wirtz family’s proposed Ivanhoe Village has local ... This 25-year project will thoughtfully develop more than 700 acres that surround Ivanhoe Farms and will put the land to good use in ...

The land that makes up Ivanhoe Farms has been in the Wirtz family for more than 160 years. It’s the place where Michael Wirtz, great-great grandfather of Rocky Wirtz, current president of the ...

The Wirtz family, which owns the NHL’s Chicago Blackhawks hockey team, has controlled the land planned for Ivanhoe Village since the mid-1800s, when German immigrant Michael Wirtz began farming ...

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 ...

The Wirtz-owned Ivanhoe Nursery & Farms, which has operated on the site for more than 160 years, would remain, Goldsmith said. "This is a legacy project for the Wirtz family," he said. "They're ...

If the Wirtz family's vision becomes reality, ... It's been owned by the Wirtzes since the 1850s and is home to the Ivanhoe Nursery & Farms, ...

The family’s Ivanhoe Stable was one of North America’s foremost Standardbred farms in the late 1970s and early ‘80s, with seven stallions and about 100 broodmares.

Chicago’s Wirtz family is best-known for owning the NHL’s Blackhawks, but its business empire, which also includes liquor distribution and banking, started as a real estate company. Tod… ...