WAUKEGAN
Lake County Seat • Illinois Local
(35 miles North of Downtown Chicago)
City incorporated on February 23, 1859
Settlement first named “Waukegance” and founded in 1829. The new name Waukegan (meaning “little fort”) was adopted and incorporated as a town on March 31, 1849.
Waukegan’s nicknames are: The Town, The ‘Kegan, Green Town, Talk Town, and WaukTown. Its motto is: “An Illinois Arts-Friendly Community”.
Waukegan had an abolitionist community dating to these early days. In 1853, residents commemorated the anniversary of emancipation of slaves in the British Empire with a meeting. Abraham Lincoln campaigned for president in Waukegan in 1860.
Early settlers grew the Waukegan economy with ship and wagon building, flour milling, sheep raising, pork packing, and dairying. William Besley’s Waukegan Brewing Company was one of the most successful of these businesses.
Waukegan is a talented growing Illinois business community with affordable housing and plenty of available retail space for new businesses.
Today, Waukegan embraces cultural diversity as a growing vibrant education-oriented community with affordable housing and plenty of available retail space for new businesses.
As an Illinois culturally-sensitive business-friendly community, Waukegan welcomes and supports all culturally-inspiring residents and new value-based businesses.
The City of Waukegan is in a fast growing area for new businesses. In the spirit of enterprising early settlers, Waukegan is an ideal Illinois location where local individual creativity can thrive and where self-starter entrepreneurs can start their own dream business online or offline.
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