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Charles Mound is a gentle, 1,235-foot-high hill in northern Jo Daviess County, near the small town of Scales Mound and 11 miles northeast of Galena. It is the highest point in Illinois that is not man-made; the Sears Tower and other skyscrapers in Chicago rise to a greater elevation above sea level. Its geographic location is . The top of the hill is slightly less than one-half mile from the Wisconsin border. It is within the Driftless Area. This region of Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, centering on Dubuque, Iowa, was not covered or ground down by the last continental glaciers.
Charles Mound is located on rolling farmland. As of 2005, it was privately owned and was opened by its owners to the public for eight days in each calendar year. The "open" days were the first full weekends of June, July, August, and September.
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