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Waukegan (/ w ə ˈ k iː ɡ ən / wə-KEE-ghən) is the most populous city in and county seat of Lake County, Illinois, United States.Located 36 miles (58 km) north of Chicago, Waukegan is a satellite city within the greater Chicagoland area.
Illinois Route 43 (IL 43) is a 60.30-mile-long (97.04 km) major north–south state highway in the U.S. state of Illinois. It runs from U.S. Route 30 (US 30) in Frankfort north to the large intersection of IL 120 (Belvidere Road) and US 41 ( Skokie Highway ) in Waukegan .
A suburban extension of Chicago's Lake Shore Drive to Waukegan was first promoted by the North Shore Improvement Association in the late 1880s. [4] In 1889 this road was named Sheridan Road for Philip Henry Sheridan, [5] a general in the Civil War who coordinated military relief efforts in Chicago following the Great Chicago Fire.
Initially, US 41 followed what used to be Illinois Route 42. [2] In 1931, it was rerouted away from Zion and Winthrop Harbor while IL 42 north of Chicago remained untouched. [3] In 1935, an entire section of US 41 between Chicago and Waukegan was realigned to a new alignment. The new alignment closely matched the current routing of US 41. [4]
Illinois also has two counties named after the same person, the prominent early 19th century New York governor DeWitt Clinton (DeWitt County, and Clinton County). Information on the FIPS county code, county seat, year of establishment, origin, etymology, population, area and map of each county is included in the table below.
The Near North Historic District is a national historic district in Waukegan, Illinois.The district consists of a residential area that grew northward from Waukegan's downtown in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Illinois Route 120 (IL 120) is a major east–west state highway in northeastern Illinois.It runs from U.S. Route 14 near Woodstock to Illinois Route 131 in Waukegan.It travels a distance of 34.62 miles (55.72 km) [1] and is one of the few roads that provides direct access from McHenry County to Interstate 94 (Tri-State Tollway) in Lake County.
Originally it was a Native American trail running along a slight ridge in the usually soggy ground of pre-settlement Chicago. Prior to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, the street was known as Little Fort Road, and it led to the town of Little Fort, now known as Waukegan, Illinois. In Morton Grove it was known as Miller's Mill Road.