WAUKEGAN, a city of Illinois, U.S.A., on Lake Michigan, 40 m. N. by W. of Chicago. Population 19,226 in 1920 (25% foreign-born white) 33,499 in 1930 by Federal census. The city lies on a plateau ioo ft. above the lake. The streets are inter sected by beautiful wooded ravines, which are bridged for traffic and utilized for parks. There is a good harbour, with coal docks. The site of Waukegan is designated on a map in a history of the United States published in London in 1795 as Little Fort, and the first settlers (1835) found decaying timbers of an old stockade.
The village became the county seat in 1841, and in 1849 was incorporated, changing its name from Little Fort to the Potta wattomie equivalent. In 1859 it was chartered as a city. It was a post on the old Green Bay trail, built up a thriving lake traffic after 1845, and was reached by the Chicago and North Western railway in