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Waukegan, Illinois. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Lake. Associated ZIP codes: 60079, 60085, 60087.
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Three people were shot outside an apartment complex during a large gathering in Waukegan, Illinois, on Wednesday night.
Several arrested after police pursuit, crash in Waukegan, Illinois
After 51 years, Jane Doe 1975 found in the Mississippi River in Clinton County in 1975 has been identified as Cheryl Lynn Edwards of Waukegan, Illinois.
A Waukegan alderperson is facing criminal charges after authorities say she cast a mail-in ballot in her deceased mother's name during the 2026 Illinois prim...
Teen boy dies after being pulled from Lake Michigan in Waukegan
The beginning of yet another nesting season on the Illinois lakeshore marks another victory for the species as its population bounces back in the region.
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At Audubon Great Lakes, where I oversee conservation work in Illinois and Indiana, we’re working to protect wetlands across the region because of the benef...
Nurdles, synthesized by petrochemical plants as building blocks of new plastics, have been found in every Great Lake and in rivers throughout Illinois.
The Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort is reporting a record-setting 90 pairs of plovers in 2026, the most since the bird was listed as an endangered...
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A new study set out to find which states were struggling with their weight a bit more than others.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker cruised to reelection in Tuesday’s midterm elections, but could his aspirations soon direct him toward another office?
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker spoke to reporters Wednesday morning, a day after winning another four years in Springfield.
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Waukegan is in Lake County, Illinois.
Region: Northern Illinois
60079, 60085, 60087
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A new study set out to find which states were struggling with their weight a bit more than others.
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker cruised to reelection in Tuesday’s midterm elections, but could his aspirations soon direct him toward another office?
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker spoke to reporters Wednesday morning, a day after winning another four years in Springfield.
A 1778 map by Thomas Hutchins recorded the site as Riviere du Vieux Fort, "old fort river," and Wakaygagh. By the 1820s the settlement was known in English as Little Fort, and the name Waukegance, then Waukegan, from a Potawatomi word for "fort," was coined by John H. Kinzie and Solomon Juneau and adopted on March 31, 1849. Waukegan had an abolitionist community from its early days, and in 1853 residents held a meeting marking the anniversary of emancipation in the British Empire. When Abraham Lincoln campaigned there in 1860, a fire alarm interrupted him, and it is said to be the only place he failed to finish a speech.
By the mid-19th century Waukegan was an industrial hub, with shipbuilding and wagon making, flour milling, sheep raising, pork packing and dairying, and William Besley's Waukegan Brewing Company sold its beer well beyond the United States. The Chicago and Milwaukee Railway, completed through the city by 1855, sped its growth, and nearly 1,000 ships a year called at its harbor. A large German population grew in the 1860s. Later industries, including the United States Sugar Refinery, opened in 1890, the barbed wire maker Washburn and Moen from 1891, U.S. Starch Works and Thomas Brass and Iron Works, drew immigrants mostly from southeastern Europe and Scandinavia, with large groups from Sweden, Finland and Lithuania, as well as a sizable Armenian community. Sources Wikipedia: Waukegan, Illinois
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