Illinois
Lake
Waukegan Township

Waukegan

Waukegan is in the of the region of . It sits on Lake Michigan, has a large harbor, and is the county seat of Lake County, Illinois.
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  • Type: City with 89,300 residents
  • Description: county seat of Lake County, Illinois, United States
  • Also known as: “City of Waukegan”, “Little Fort”, “Waukegan, IL”, and “Waukegan, Illinois”
  • Postal codes: 60079, 60085, and 60087

Places of Interest

Highlights include Waukegan station and Genesee Theatre.

Railway station
Photo: David Wilson, CC BY 2.0.
Waukegan is a railroad station in Waukegan, Illinois, served by 's Union Pacific North Line. It is officially located on 95 North Spring Street, is 36.0 miles away from , the inbound terminus of the Union Pacific North Line, and also serves commuters who travel north to .

Theater building
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is a concert hall and movie palace in Waukegan, Illinois. Today, the venue has seats for 2,403 people and opened in 1927. It's both used as a vaudeville theater and cinema and hosts musical artists and shows.

Library
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The is the public library serving Waukegan, . It is at the intersection of County and Clayton streets in downtown Waukegan, near the county government complex.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include North Chicago.

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is a city in , United States, and a suburb of the . The population was 30,759 at the 2020 census making it the third-most populous city by population in the county, after Waukegan and .

Waukegan

Latitude
42.3602° or 42° 21′ 37″ north
Longitude
-87.8318° or 87° 49′ 55″ west
Population
89,300
Elevation
653 feet (199 metres)
IATA airport code
UGN
United Nations Location Code
US UGN
Open location code
86JJ9569+37
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153499255
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4915734
Wiki­data ID
Q578289
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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: “Waukegan”
  • 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”
  • Volapük: “Waukegan”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Waukegan, Illinois”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Waukegan”
  • Welsh: “Waukegan, Illinois”
  • Welsh: “Waukegan”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Waukegan”. Photo: Bohao Zhao, CC BY 3.0.