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Waukegan
Waukegan - there is only one.
North of Chicago on the shores of Lake Michigan, my hometown. In no particular order .... 2009     Shades of Dandelion Wine.  Lilac Cottage - Bowen Park             |
I passed through Waukegan about 10 years ago, checking out the downtown area. Looks about the same as I remember. Hope you post some more pics sometime. Thanks for the mini-tour.
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Chandler's was a real institution in both Evanston and Highland Park for many years. I didn't even know they ever had a store in Waukegan.
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The first time I came to Chicago I stopped by Waukegan to visit my brother. Nice little town. He took me to some bodegas looking store that was sort of like a head shop but with no pipes and stuff. I really liked the little theater. I still have a picture from the lake I took there hanging on at my desk at work.
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Waukegan. . . my old stomping grounds when I got sick of Kenosha. . . both cities of equal misery that noone would miss if they'd be swallowed into the Earth. . .
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Power
A mile or so from where I grew up - the coal fired ComEd plant always provided a backdrop for my views. In the winter the soot from the plant would settle on the fallen snow - leaving clear dark lines in the snowbanks where it had settled between snows.
When I drove down with my wife in 2009 to take some of these we were quickly pulled over by security - the personable guard said there was nothing he could do about us taking photos from the public road - they just wanted to make sure we weren't terrorists. Totally different feel and experience than we had just had at the Zion (nuke) plant.            and from 2013  https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-l...o/IMG_4861.JPG   https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-P...o/IMG_4877.JPG and a segway ..... https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-c...o/IMG_4858.JPG |
Rail
A very big train yard provided a big part of my playground as a kid - a rich source of 1/2 burnt flares, a great place to flatten pennies. These shots are from Aug of 2013
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Interesting pics of a town I've never seen!! Thanks!! :tup:
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Waukegan
My hometown too. From 1952 to 1975. It has changed ALOT since then.
I still will go to Louie's and the Quonset Hut when I happen to be going past. Sure do miss those cheese bombers!! |
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Waukegan is one of Chicagoland's most diverse suburbs, and actually has a large number of non-Mexican hispanic immigrants. Kenosha isn't quite as diverse, but it has a nice waterfront, a decent downtown, the streetcar, some TOD relating to the streetcar, and some good Italian food. Oh, and of course a Metra stop. Not sure what's so "miserable" about them. |
The harbor - Nov 2013
The skyline at sunset
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-y...o/P1350959.JPG https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-C...o/IMG_9409.JPG Gypsum silos   https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-u...o/IMG_9389.JPG  Gypsum plant https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Z...o/IMG_9407.JPG Coal plant https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-p...o/IMG_9453.JPG Johnson Outboard https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-S.../20131109K.jpg   "Waukegan style" pizza at Louie's   |
It kind of reminds me of a little city in my local region in western, PA minus the hills or northeastern Ohio. I used to live in the Chicago in Downers Grove but never got to visit Waukegan since I only lived there for a short period of time due to health problems but I was near it driving up to Milwaukee.
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Lakefront Jan 2015
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I've always wanted to stop here! On my way from Duluth/Superior to Chicago I always go past Waukegan, which looks a lot like Superior, WI lakefront. I love my Great Lakes cities!
I'll have to make a stop by sometime when spring arrives and take some photos! |
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 May 2017     Dec 2017         Sidings for the coal plant      |
nice. i'm completely unfamiliar with this city...in fact i forget that there is another county north of chicago before wisco.
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great pics of an often overlooked place, harry!
i don't know how i missed this thread over the years. i absolutely love that head-on shot of those four metra locomotives. Quote:
most of it is pretty forgettable sprawl, but there are some real places like waukegan mixed in here and there. |
Interesting. Until I saw the Metra locomotives, I thought this town was somewhere completely different: on the eastern coast of Lake Michigan in Michigan itself.
I always thought that the suburban towns along Lake Michigan to the north of Chicago were rich, as if it was the Westchester County of Chicagoland, or something like that. |
Nice set Harry-looks like a great place to grow up-lots of great memories.
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