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The Waukegan Public Library is the public library serving Waukegan, Illinois. It is at the intersection of County and Clayton streets in downtown Waukegan, near the county government complex. The library has approximately 205,000 books as of 2011, [1] and recorded a total of 338,615 library visits in fiscal year 2005. [2]
Downtown Waukegan is the urban center of Lake County. Many restaurants, bars, shops, the Waukegan Public Library, the College of Lake County, the Lake County Courthouse (including the William D. Block Memorial Law Library), and many more call downtown Waukegan their home. The Temporary American Place Casino; Genesee Theatre; Waukegan Municipal ...
Waukegan Building; Waukegan Community Unit School District 60; Waukegan Harbor Light; Waukegan High School; Waukegan National Airport; Waukegan Public Library; Waukegan riot of 1966; Waukegan River; Waukegan station; William D. Block Memorial Law Library; Wilson, Illinois; WKRS; WXLC
On July 31, 2021, the new Linda Sokol Francis Brookfield Library opened across the street at 3541 Park Avenue. The original Carnegie library site currently serves as the Library's parking lot and Pollinator Garden. The concrete "Public Library" sign from the Carnegie library has been installed in the garden. 9: Carmi Carmi: Jan 14, 1914: $10,000
Waukegan Public Library: Waukegan Public Library. December 31, 2013 : 1 N. Sheridan Rd. Waukegan: 94: West Park Neighborhood Historic District ...
The Warren-Newport Public Library is located in Gurnee, Illinois. The library serves 60,000 people within a 55-square-mile (140 km 2) area that covers all or most of Warren Township and Newport Township, Illinois. The library is a member of the Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS).
The Jack Benny Center for the Arts, located in Bowen Park, Waukegan, Illinois, is the Cultural Arts Division of the Waukegan Park District. [1] The Center plays host to the Bowen Park Theatre and Opera Company (a professional theatre/opera company), the Waukegan Symphony Orchestra and Concert Chorus (community based performance groups), as well as numerous theatre, dance, and /visual art ...
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 ...