Talk:Waukegan, Illinois

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Jack Benny was not born in Waukegan. So I edited the page. How do I know? Well I was born in Waukegan and attended Jack Benny Jr. High (as it was known at the time).

Ray Bradbury
Have you disowned your most famous citizen?

According to his Wikipedia obituary today - "Bradbury was born in 1920 in Waukegan, Illinois, to Esther (Moberg) Bradbury, a Swedish immigrant and Leonard Spaulding Bradbury, a power and telephone lineman."

"In his youth, he spent much time in the Carnegie library in Waukegan, Illinois, reading such authors as H.G. Wells, Jules Verne, and his favorite author, Edgar Rice Burroughs, who wrote novels such as Tarzan of the Apes and The Warlord of Mars....He used this library as a setting for much of his novel Something Wicked This Way Comes, and depicted Waukegan as "Green Town" in some of his other semi-autobiographical novels — Dandelion Wine, Farewell Summer — as well as in many of his short stories."

As an Australian I came to this page expecting to read further of his legacy in your town, as I was a great fan of his work in my youth. He is not even mentioned - only some trivia about Jack Benny - who was not even born in Waukegan according to the above entry. Tiddy (talk) 08:17, 7 June 2012 (UTC)

Shimer College
It should be noted that Shimer College is relocating to Chicago. I understand that a few classes will remain here in Waukegan but I do not know if that it a temporary or permanent decision. Inexchris 18:16, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Historical Places
I'd like to start a section about Waukegan's historical places. Does anyone have any information to contribute?Inexchris 18:54, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Demographics
The demographics seems like it needs to be updated sources need to be cited.(UTC)Inexchris 18:40, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

History
I modified the history section by removing the first paragraph and inserting the text from the city's history page (http://www.waukeganweb.net/waukeganhistory.html).

General Changes
I added a section for "Notable People" and corrected the capitalization of "Other Notable People." Perhaps in the future we can eliminate the last paragraph under "History" and move some of our more famous residents/former residents to the "Notable People" section.

I also added a few city links and modified the TOWN links. Inexchris 19:32, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

Pronunciation
I changed the IPA from (which was unclear) to. That is, it now says "waw-KEE-gan". Is this correct? Lfh (talk) 14:12, 10 December 2009 (UTC)

Copyright problem removed
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 * The section was pasted in on 29 August 2006; this Wayback Machine link shows the external text is older than that. -- John of Reading (talk) 07:17, 26 July 2011 (UTC)

Artistic references
I took the liberty of removing a lot of content from the "Artistic references" section. The section had included several instances where it seemed like a movie/show/book/song mentioned Waukegan only as an arbitrary place name - they wanted a random Midwestern city, so they chose Waukegan. At the same time, I wrote a more substantive paragraph about Bradbury's Green Town, which is much more relevant to a general understanding of the city.

Currently the article is basically a series of lists, in common with many location articles on WP. Since Waukegan is more of a small city and an urban center in its own right than a regular old location, I hope that in time it can become more of a real prose article. But for now we can at least have a cleaner list. Fishal (talk) 20:30, 29 September 2013 (UTC)

External links modified
Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just added archive links to 1 one external link on Waukegan, Illinois. Please take a moment to review my edit. If necessary, add after the link to keep me from modifying it. Alternatively, you can add to keep me off the page altogether. I made the following changes:
 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20080324022109/http://www.publicintegrity.org:80/Superfund/site.aspx?act=0500574 to http://www.publicintegrity.org/Superfund/site.aspx?act=0500574

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