When leaders of the Waukegan Park District and the Waukegan Historical Society started thinking seriously about saving and restoring the city’s onetime Carnegie Library — already a historic landmark — ...

A once-decrepit library on a bluff at the edge of downtown Waukegan finally came back to life last week, six decades after moving into a modern building four blocks away. The reopening was the ...

After years of planning and millions in renovations, the meticulously restored, revived and repurposed former Carnegie library in downtown Waukegan is opening to the public in a new role. At noon ...

Looking at maps with red, green and yellow areas marked off, students from Waukegan and New Trier Township high schools learned together about redlining and housing discrimination in their backyards ...