In-Home Personal Training in Barrington and the Barrington Area

The village was incorporated in 1865 and platted along the Chicago & North Western Railway. Its Historic District, listed on the National Register, is described by the village as one of the largest frame-home districts in Illinois, with Queen Anne houses along Lake Street. CMAP counts 13 percent of the village's homes as built before 1940, while 68 percent of all units are detached houses. A trainer adapts to the room you have, from a Victorian parlor to a newer basement, and brings the equipment along.

The village calls itself the hub of seven independent villages spread over about 90 square miles. Neighbors such as South Barrington, Lake Barrington, Deer Park and Tower Lakes work together through the Barrington Area Council of Governments, and North Barrington's village hall sits on Old Barrington Road. We cover the whole area. The village itself sits about 32 miles northwest of the Loop, and Barrington station, at 201 S. Spring St. in the village center, is on Metra's Union Pacific Northwest line to Ogilvie.

Barrington's outdoor options start right at a neighborhood park. A path from Citizens Park connects to Cuba Marsh, a 791-acre Lake County preserve in Deer Park with about three miles of trail through rolling hills. Baker's Lake, a Cook County preserve, protects a 219-acre Illinois Nature Preserve with one of the state's largest heron rookeries, seen from an overlook at Hillside and Eastern avenues. For longer hikes, Crabtree Nature Center on Stover Road adds 3.4 miles of unpaved trail.