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- The creation of the Illinois Parallel Railroad (now the Chicago and North Western Railway) in 1855 stimulated interest in Waukegan as a manufacturing center. The town continued to grow and diversify, and Waukegan was incorporated as a city on February 23, 1859, with an area of 5.62 square miles.
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Waukegan, first visited by Pere Marquette in 1673, is one of the oldest communities in Illinois. The city started as a french trading post and as the Potawatomie Indian settlement known as "Little Fort".
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Although the city has no official sister city relationship, Waukegan is home to about 6,000 people from Tonatico, Mexico, according to a February 2017 article in The Washington Post. This has created ongoing ties between the two cities.
Jul 17, 2013 · Waukegan's first settler, Thomas Jenkins, moved into a log cabin in 1835, according to the Waukegan Historical Society. The railroad came to town in 1855, and the city was incorporated four...
Waukegan, city, seat (1841) of Lake county, northeastern Illinois, U.S. It lies on a high bluff above Lake Michigan, about 40 miles (65 km) north of Chicago. One of the oldest communities in the state, it was originally a Potawatomi Indian settlement.
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It became a town in 1849 and became a city in 1859. Waukegan used to be a place were a lot of people wanted to be. In the 1920's its population was between 19,226 and 33,499. By 1970, the population jumped to 65,134. Waukegan was a very popular town to visit, and eventually move to.
Toward the middle of the nineteenth century, Waukegan became a thriving center of industry with enterprises that included ship and wagon building, flour milling, sheep raising, pork packing, and dairying.
When that lake shore spot became a city in the early 1800s, it at first was called “Little Fort” too. In 1849, the name was changed to “Waukegan,” based on the Algonquin tribe’s word for “trading post.”
