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Waukegan Breakwater
State: IL
Year established: 1898
Latitude: 42 deg 21
min 44 sec N
Longitude: 87 deg 48
min 38 sec W
Original construction:
temporary iron post supporting a white lens lantern erected at the outer end of the north breakwater as its construction neared completion Rebuilds:
 1908: white hexagonal pyramid topped by a domed hexagonal shaft with a glazed belt which formed the lantern, 31 feet above lake level
Status:
razed in 1938
Notes:
This light is often confused with the Waukegan Harbor Light, which is also at the end of a breakwater; the information was provided in part by Beverly Millard of the Waukegan Historical Society.
More information:
U.S. Lighthouse Board, List of Lights, Buoys, and Daymarks of the United States on the Northern Lakes and Rivers, (Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1908)
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