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There aren?EUR??,,????'???t many folks alive that remember when Waukegan, Ill. went from dirt streets to brick. It was 1895, the year of the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. Remember that event? No one is sure when the streets here were covered by, ugh, asphalt. A Waukegan Historical Society member thinks it has been at least since 1952 (about the time the U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb). The local librarian believes the streets changed in Nov. 1947, when buses replaced the last electric streetcars, the same moment in time that Howard Hughes got the Spruce Goose airborne. The librarian also believes the bricks probably came from a brickyard founded in 1856 by Lake County?EUR??,,????'???s Jesse Maynard. What?EUR??,,????'???s certain, there was brick in the 1930 and small portions of brick streets remained in the city about the time of the first Baby Boomers arrived.
There aren?EUR??,,????'???t many folks alive that remember when Waukegan, Ill. went from dirt streets to brick. It was 1895, the year of the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta. Remember that event?
No one is sure when the streets here were covered by, ugh, asphalt. A Waukegan Historical Society member thinks it has been at least since 1952 (about the time the U.S. detonated the first hydrogen bomb).
The local librarian believes the streets changed in Nov. 1947, when buses replaced the last electric streetcars, the same moment in time that Howard Hughes got the Spruce Goose airborne. The librarian also believes the bricks probably came from a brickyard founded in 1856 by Lake County?EUR??,,????'???s Jesse Maynard.
What?EUR??,,????'???s certain, there was brick in the 1930 and small portions of brick streets remained in the city about the time of the first Baby Boomers arrived.
Francisco Uviña, University of New Mexico
Hardscape Oasis in Litchfield Park
Ash Nochian, Ph.D. Landscape Architect
November 12th, 2025
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