Waukegan
a city and county-seat of Lake co., Ill.; on Lake Michigan, and on the Elgin, Joliet and Eastern, and the Chicago and Northwestern railroads; 35 miles N. W. of Chicago. The principal part of the city is built on a bluff which rises rather abruptly to the height of 50 feet. Here are many churches, a high school, School of the Immaculate Conception, St. Alberta's Convent, St.
Joseph's School, public library, waterworks, electric lights, street railroads, National and State banks, and several weekly newspapers. Waukegan is largely interested in the lake fisheries. It has flour mills, tanneries, the Forsyth Scale Works, a pump factory, silver plating establishment, and manufactories of farming implements, sashes, doors, blinds, etc. It also has a trade in grain, wool, and butter. Pop. (1910) 16,069; (1920) 19,226.