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About Shields
Township in Illinois, United StatesShields Township is a township in Lake County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2020 census, its population was 37,685. The Naval Station Great Lakes is located in this township.
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The public schools Shields’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 55% of Illinois’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
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