Editing Crystal Lake, Illinois (section)

===Eliza Ringling===
Ringling Road is an east–west road which curves from Country Club Road back up to Lake Avenue. There are less than one dozen houses that claim a Ringling Road address; but those houses range from a small, stone cottage to large, imposing mansions. Ringling Road provides the northern boundary for the Dole Mansion property. The road was named after Eliza "Lou" Ringling who, as founder of the Lake Development Company, purchased the Dole Mansion in 1922 and converted it into the Crystal Lake Country Club. The transaction involved nearly a half million dollars and was one of the largest real estate deals handled in the area. The original Crystal Lake Country Club faltered in the stock market crash of 1929, and Mrs. Ringling, with her group of investors (the Lake Development Company) subdivided much of the large Dole estate into what is known as the Country Club Additions subdivision<ref name="RinglingRoad">{{cite web |url=http://www.cl-hs.org/resources/Ringling+Road.pdf |title=Street Scenes : Ringling Road |publisher=Cl-hs.org |access-date=2015-03-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923204449/http://www.cl-hs.org/resources/Ringling+Road.pdf |archive-date=2015-09-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref> parts of which are in the neighboring village [[Lakewood, Illinois]].

Eliza "Lou" Ringling was the widow of the oldest [[Ringling brothers|Ringling brother]], Albert, of circus fame.<ref name="RinglingRoad" />