Waukegan, Illinois
Lake County
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Waukegan is a city and county seat of Lake County in the north east of the U.S. state of Illinois. In 2010 Waukegan had 89 078 inhabitants.
Waukegan is part of the Chicago metropolitan area.
Geography
The city is situated on the coast of Lake Michigan at 42 ° 42'21 " north latitude and 87 ° 51'41 " west longitude. The city covers 59.83 km ², spread over 59.57 km ² land and 0.26 km ² water surface.
On the western edge of Waukegan runs in a north -south U.S. Highway 41 in downtown, the Illinois State Route 43 meet, 120, 131 and 137 together.
By Waukegan several rail lines of the Union Pacific Railroad run parallel in a north-south direction.
Waukegan is located 67.3 km north of the center of Chicago, 120 km east of Rockford 83.9 km south of Milwaukee in Wisconsin.
History
Waukegan was founded in the late 17th century as an outpost of French traders. Waukegan was officially recognized as a city on February 23, 1859.
Demographic data
In the official census in 2000, a population of 87 901 was determined. These distributed to 27,787 households in 19,450 families. The population density was 1475.6 people per square kilometer. There were 29 249 residential buildings, which corresponded to a housing density of 491.0 per square kilometer buildings.
The population was in 2000 from 50.1 percent White, 19.2 percent African American, 0.5 percent Native Americans, Asians 3.6 percent and 23.0 percent other. 3.5 percent said to be descended from at least two of these groups. 44.8 percent of the population consisted of Hispanics who belonged to the various of the aforementioned groups.
30.2 percent were under the age of 18, 12.1 percent between 18 to 24, 33.4 percent of 25-44, 16.4 percent from 45 to 64 and 7.9 percent 65 and older. The median age was 29 years. For every 100 females were statistically 103.1 men in the over 18 year olds 103.2.
The median income per household was 42 335 U.S. dollars ( USD), the median family income $ 47,341. The median income for men was $ 30,556, and for women about $ 25,632. The per capita income amounted to $ 17,368. Around 10.7 percent of families and 13.9 percent of the total population were below the poverty line income.
Sons and daughters of the town
- Earl Dwire (1883-1940), actor
- Ray Bradbury (1920-2012), novelist and screenwriter
- Otto Graham (1921-2003), American football player and coach, basketball player
- Diane Ackerman ( born 1948 ), writer and poet
- Kim Stanley Robinson ( born 1952 ), science fiction author
- Marvin O. Smith Junior ( born 1961 ), Jazz drummer
- Steve DiGiorgio (born 1967 ), Metal bassist
- Brian Van Holt (born 1969 ), actor
- Tim Daisy ( born 1976 ), jazz drummer