Plaza del Lago is a shopping center at 1515 Sheridan Road in Wilmette, Illinois, United States, which opened in 1928 as Spanish Court.

[3] Plans for this Spanish styled shopping center in No Man's Land were drawn up in 1926 and 1927 by the well-known architect, Edwin Hill Clark.

South of the drive was to be a movie theater, Teatro del Lago[5][8] and on the north a single story building holding a restaurant and shops.

[3] Amongst the complex's earliest occupants were Spanish Court Pharmacy, Teatro del Lago and Bills Realty (the realtor that first marketed Wilmette's Indian Hill Estates Subdivision).

[5][8] No Man's Land had become a "honky tonk town" with gas stations, hot dog stands and a rat-infested garbage dump.

The owner of the Teatro, Sam Meyers, wanted to build a parking garage for movie patrons, but these plans were never finalized with the Wilmette village government.

[3][5] The developers were financially forced to allow a Howard Johnson's restaurant to be built east of the Jewel at the southeast end of Plaza del Lago, but fought to prevent them from building their trademark orange roof.

[5] The plaza was appraised in 1979 as being successful due to the population density of the adjacent area and the lack of similar shopping centers nearby.

[16] Plato Foufas and Joseph Stefans also developed a strip of high-rise housing co-operatives which line the lakefront across Sheridan Road from Plaza del Lago.