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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.
A three day long carnival takes place yearly in June named Wauconda Fest, which takes place by the skate park, near the Park District building and Wauconda High School. [ 22 ] Many other events are held throughout the year, such as an annual expo in February, inside of the Wauconda High School, 4th of July fireworks held yearly on July 3, [ 23 ...
Though it numbers its issues from August 1911 and celebrated 2011 as its 100th anniversary, The News Sun—known as the Kendallville News-Sun before July 1984 [1] —can trace its history back to the mid-19th century, through the Daily News and Daily Sun newspapers that merged in 1911 and the succession of weekly newspapers that preceded them.
Gurnee (/ ɡ ər ˈ n iː / ghər-NEE) is a village and suburb in Lake County, Illinois, United States.Its population was 30,706 as of the 2020 census. [2] It borders the city of Waukegan, and is a popular tourist attraction within the Chicago metropolitan area.
Buffalo Grove is a village in Lake and Cook Counties in the U.S. state of Illinois.A suburb of Chicago, it lies about 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Downtown Chicago and 20 miles (32 km) north of O'Hare International Airport.
Pages in category "People from Waukegan, Illinois" The following 82 pages are in this category, out of 82 total. ... Code of Conduct; Developers; Statistics;
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.
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 ...