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Illinois Route 137 (IL 137) is a 23.49-mile-long (37.80 km) state highway in northeast Illinois.It runs from the Wisconsin state line north of Winthrop Harbor south to North Chicago, west to Libertyville, and then back northwest to Grayslake, terminating at IL 83 just south of IL 120.
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Waukegan is located at (42.3703140, −87.8711404). [2] Waukegan is on the shore of Lake Michigan, about 11 miles (18 km) south of the border with Wisconsin and 37 miles (60 km) north of downtown Chicago at an
Waukegan Township is a township in Lake County, Illinois, USA. As of the 2010 census, its population was 90,893. [2] Geography. Waukegan Township covers an area of ...
The paper started out life as the Independent and, later, the Lake County Independent based in Libertyville in 1892. By 1921 the paper was known as the Waukegan Daily News and in 1930 it purchased the Waukegan Daily Sun (founded 1897) and merged the two papers to become the Waukegan News-Sun, a name it would operate under until 1971.
Ray Bradbury, author, iconic science-fiction writer, wrote about 1920's Waukegan as "Green Town" in many of his novels and short stories; James Grippando, New York Times best-selling novelist [citation needed] Isadore Gilbert Jeffery (1840-1919), poet, lyricist; Ward Just, writer; Kim Stanley Robinson, science-fiction writer; born in Waukegan ...
When Peterson died in 1927 he was president of more than 12 industrial companies. Peterson, a philanthropist, donated the Lake–Peterson House to the Swedish American Hospital in 1919, provided he and his wife be allowed to remain in it until they died. Peterson's wife died in 1964 and the house became a residence for the hospital's School of ...
People born in, from, or otherwise associated with Waukegan, Illinois, United States. Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. A.