Waukegan
Waukegan is in the Far North Suburbs of the Chicagoland region of Illinois. It sits on Lake Michigan, has a large harbor, and is the county seat of Lake County, Illinois.
- City with 89,300 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 653 feet (199 metres)
- …has the IATA airport code UGN
- Description: city in and county seat of Lake County, Illinois, United States
- Postal codes600796008560087
- Also known as“City of Waukegan”“Little Fort”“Waukegan, IL”“Waukegan, Illinois”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Waukegan station and Genesee Theatre.
Waukegan station
Railway station
Waukegan is a railroad station in Waukegan, Illinois, served by Metra's Union Pacific North Line.
Genesee Theatre
Theater building
Genesee Theatre is a concert hall and movie palace in Waukegan, Illinois.
Waukegan Public Library
Library
Nyttend, Public domain.
The Waukegan Public Library is the public library serving Waukegan, Illinois.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Chicago.
Waukegan
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Latitude
42.3602° or 42° 21′ 37″ north
Longitude
-87.8318° or 87° 49′ 55″ west
UN/LOCODE
US UGN
Open location code
86JJ9569+37
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Waukegan” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Waukegan, Illinois”
- Albanian: “Waukegan”
- Arabic: “وكغن”
- Armenian: “Ուոկիգան”
- Azerbaijani: “Uokiqan”
- Basque: “Waukegan”
- Belarusian: “Уакіган”
- Belarusian: “Уокіган”
- Bulgarian: “Уокиган”
- Catalan: “Waukegan”
- Cebuano: “Waukegan”
- Chechen: “Вокиган”
- Chinese: “沃基根”
- Chinese: “沃基甘”
- Croatian: “Waukegan”
- Czech: “Waukegan”
- Dagbani: “Waukegan”
- Danish: “Waukegan”
- Dutch: “Waukegan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “وكجن”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ووكيجان، ايلينوى”
- Finnish: “Waukegan”
- French: “Waukegan”
- Galician: “Waukegan”
- Georgian: “უოკიგანი”
- German: “Waukegan”
- Gilaki: “وؤکيگن (ايلينؤی)”
- Gilaki: “وؤکيگن”
- Haitian: “Waukegan, Ilinwa”
- Haitian: “Waukegan”
- Hebrew: “ווקיגן”
- Hungarian: “Waukegan”
- Ido: “Waukegan, Illinois”
- Ido: “Waukegan”
- Irish: “Waukegan”
- Italian: “Waukegan”
- Japanese: “ウォキーガン”
- Korean: “워키건”
- Ladin: “Waukegan”
- Latvian: “Vokīgana”
- Mazanderani: “وائوکگان (ایلینوی)”
- Mazanderani: “وائوکگان”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Waukegan”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Waukegan”
- Norwegian: “Waukegan”
- Ossetian: “Уокиган”
- Persian: “وائوکگان، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “وائوکهگان، ایلینوی”
- Persian: “واکیگان”
- Polish: “Waukegan”
- Portuguese: “Waukegan”
- Russian: “Уокиган”
- Serbian: “Вокиган”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waukegan, Illinois”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Waukegan”
- Silesian: “Waukegan”
- Slovak: “Waukegan”
- Slovenian: “Waukegan”
- South Azerbaijani: “وائوکقان، ایلینوی”
- Spanish: “Waukegan (Illinois)”
- Spanish: “Waukegan”
- Swahili: “Waukegan, Illinois”
- Swahili: “Waukegan”
- Swedish: “Waukegan”
- Talysh: “Vokigan”
- Tatar: “Вокиган”
- Thai: “วอคีกัน”
- Turkish: “Waukegan, Illinois”
- Turkish: “Waukegan”
- Ukrainian: “Вокіган”
- Urdu: “واکیگن، الینوائے”
- Urdu: “واکیگن”
- Uzbek: “Waukegan”
- Uzbek: “Wаукеган”
- Vietnamese: “Waukegan, Illinois”
- Vietnamese: “Waukegan”
- Volapük: “Waukegan”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waukegan, Illinois”
- Waray (Philippines): “Waukegan”
- Welsh: “Waukegan, Illinois”
- Welsh: “Waukegan”
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