Indian Creek is a village in Vernon Township, Lake County, Illinois, United States.

[3] According to the 2010 census, Indian Creek has a total area of 0.26 square miles (0.67 km2), all land.

[5] Indian Creek was originally incorporated in 1958 as a response to the threat of annexation by neighboring Vernon Hills.

This location may be confused with the Indian Creek Massacre, detailed below, which actually occurred in LaSalle County near Ottawa, IL.

During the Black Hawk War of 1832, which was the last Indian war in Illinois, Indian Creek, was the scene of an attack, by a renegade band of 40-80 Potawatomi and Sauk, on the Davis Settlement, where 15 white settlers were killed and scalped.