WAUKEGAN

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WAUKEGAN , a city and the county-seat of Lake county, Illinois, U.S.A., on the W. shore of Lake Michigan, about 36 M. N. of Chicago. Pop. (189o) 4915; (1900) 9426, of whom 2506 were foreign-born; (1910

census

CENSUS (from Lat. censere, to estimate or assess; connected by some with centum, i.e. a count by hundreds)

) 16,069. It is served by the

Elgin

ELGIN

, Joliet & Eastern (of which it is a terminus) and the Chicago & North Western railways, by an interurban electric line, and by lake steamers. In 188o the United States government under-took the formation of an artificial harbour with a channel 13 ft. deep, and in 19021904 the depth was increased to 20 ft. The main portion of the city is situated about loo ft. above the level of the lake. There are a number of parks and

mineral

MINERAL

springs, and along the lake front a fine driveway, Sheridan Road. The city is a residential suburb of Chicago. The

principal

PRINCIPAL

buildings are the Federal building, the Court

House

HOUSE
HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in
Gothic
- GOTHIC
it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

, a

Carnegie

CARNEGIE
CARNEGIE, ANDREW (1837– )

library, the Masonic Temple and McAlister

Hospital

. At the

village

VILLAGE

of North Chicago (pop. in 1910, 3306), about 3 M. S. of Waukegan, there is a United States Naval Training Station. Waukegan is the commercial centre of an agricultural and dairying region, and has various manufactures. The

total

TOTAL

value of the factory product in 1905 was $3,961,513. Waukegan was settled about 1835, and until 1849 was known as Little Fort, which is supposed to be the English equivalent of the Indian name Waukegan. It became the county-seat of Lake county in 1841, was incorporated as a town in 1849, and first chartered as a city in 1859.

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