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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.
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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.
In 1841, however, the county's residents voted to move the county government to Little Fort, now Waukegan, where the commissioners had purchased a section of land from the state. Lake County's first courthouse was built on part of that land in 1844 and the remainder was sold to pay for the $4,000 construction cost.
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.
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.
People born in, from, or otherwise associated with Waukegan, Illinois, United States. Subcategories This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total.
Park City is a small city located in the Warren and Waukegan townships of Lake County, Illinois, United States, on the northern end of the Chicago metropolitan area. Per the 2020 census, the population was 7,885. [2]