Community Profile

Pledge Status

Complete

Pledge Date

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Program Year

2025

Achievement

2025

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Village of Wonder Lake

Wonder Lake, IL

Dan Dycus

President

Pledge Summary

Wonder Lake, located twelve miles from the Wisconsin border in the northeast corner of Illinois, is one of the fastest growing small towns in the country. Our population surrounds an 800 acre lake and we are at the southern border of the Hack-Ma-Tact conservation site.

Community Spotlight

Pledge certificate

Village recognized by Enviornmental Defenders of McHenry County for its work on monarch salvation 2022

Action Items Committed for 2025

Communications and Convening ▸

Issue a proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat. This proclamation must incorporate a focus on monarch conservation.
Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
Engage with city parks and recreation, public works, sustainability, and other relevant staff to identify opportunities to revise and maintain mowing programs and milkweed / native nectar plant planting programs.
Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
Convert vacant lots to monarch habitat.
Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.

Past Pledge Archive

Mayor Name	Program Year	Pledge Date	Achievement
President Dan Dycus	2026	4/13/2026		View Pledge
President Dan Dycus	2025	3/5/2025	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
President Dan Dycus	2024	3/14/2024	Leadership Circle	View Pledge
Village President Anthony Topf	2022	1/26/2022	Signatories	View Pledge