WAUKEGAN  , a

city and the county-seat of Lake county, Illinois, U.S.A., on the W. shore of Lake Michigan, about 36 M . N. of Chicago . Pop . (189o) 4915; (1900) 9426, of whom 2506 were foreign-born; (1910 census) 16,069 . It is served by the Elgin, Joliet & Eastern (of which it is a terminus) and the Chicago & North Western railways, by an interurban electric line, and by lake steamers . In 188o the United States government under-took the formation of an artificial harbour with a channel 13 ft. deep, and in 1902—1904 the depth was increased to 20 ft . The main portion of the city is situated about loo ft. above the level of the lake . There are a number of parks and mineral springs, and along the lake front a fine driveway, Sheridan Road . The city is a residential suburb of Chicago . The principal buildings are the Federal building, the Court House, a Carnegie library, the Masonic Temple and McAlister Hospital . At the village of North Chicago (pop. in 1910, 3306), about 3 M . S. of Waukegan, there is a United States Naval Training Station .

Waukegan is the commercial centre of an agricultural and dairying region, and has various manufactures . The

total value of the factory product in 1905 was $3,961,513 . Waukegan was settled about 1835, and until 1849 was known as Little Fort, which is supposed to be the English equivalent of the Indian name Waukegan . It became the county-seat of Lake county in 1841, was incorporated as a town in 1849, and first chartered as a city in 1859 .