Location Waukegan, Illinois Foundation Breakwater Tower shape Cylindrical Opened 1889 Focal height 11 m Year first constructed 1889 | Year first lit relocated 1905 Construction Iron Height 11 m Range 25,928 m Material Iron | |
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Markings / pattern White with green band, no lantern Similar Manistique East Breakwat, Grosse Point Light, Chicago Harbor Light, Milwaukee Pierhead Light, White Shoal Light | ||
Waukegan Harbor Light is a lighthouse at the end of Government Pier at the foot of Madison Street in Waukegan, Illinois. It was first built in 1889 and moved when the pier was extended in the early twentieth century. At that time a fog signal building was added to the tower.
There was a serious fire in 1967. While the cast iron tower was undamaged, the rest of the structure, the light, and the fog signal were destroyed. The lantern and the remains of the fog signal house were removed then, so that it now looks very much the same as it did before the pier was extended. It remains an active light, owned and maintained by the US Coast Guard.
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