Sadly, there are not many resorts left today. The Roxana reopened several years ago as a B&B. The Mineola still stands and has a bar restaurant open in the lower level, but current ownership does little to maintain the rest of the building and it will be just a matter of time before it deteriorates beyond repair. Both of these are on Fox Lake.
The Oak Park Hotel and Bar on Pistakee Lake is still there and is still a hotel and bar, although the hotel is more of a transient clientele.
Other old resorts are now private homes, including the one where a Chicago Gangland shootout took place on Pistakee Lake.
About ten years ago, Pink Harrison's on Pistakee Lake was torn down to make room for a row of lakeside McMansions. One line of cabins still remain of the old place.
McMansions have replaced many resorts.
I Would Have Sure Liked to Have Seen the Chain of Lakes Back Around 1900. --Cooter
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