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Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
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.
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
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George W. Schmidt was a German professor, who, at the time of Karl Schmidt's birth, was teaching in Lake Forest, Illinois. His family left the city in 1907 and settled in Wisconsin . They worked on a farm near Stanley, Wisconsin , [ 2 ] where his mother and his younger brother died in a fire on August 7, 1935.
Waukegan Township covers an area of 21.4 square miles (55.3 km 2); of this, 0.31 square miles (0.8 km 2) or 1.41 percent is water. [2] Lakes in this township include Dead Lake. Sunderland Creek and the Waukegan River run through this township.
Pehr August "P.A." Peterson (September 8, 1846 – June 10, 1927) was a Swedish-born business executive, civic leader, and philanthropist in Rockford, Illinois, United States. Peterson was founder and president of numerous furniture and machine tool manufacturing companies and one of the founders of Swedish American Hospital .
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 ...