Here is an article on Waukegan published after Bradbury's death. It was also Jack Benny's hometown.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2...ler-green-town
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Sam Weller, a Columbia College professor who wrote a biography of Bradbury and became a close friend, said Bradbury's Waukegan childhood shaped his entire career. His work was so redolent of the Midwest that it's impossible to think of him growing up somewhere else.
"Ray Bradbury still would have happened, but he would have been a different Ray Bradbury," Weller said. "He would have written different things. The sort of sensitive, nostalgic, heartwarming stories that he wrote, and which everyone loves — those stories wouldn't have been written."
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http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1...n-ray-bradbury
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Among Waukegan's other claims to fame:
- It is one of the oldest cities in Illinois, tracing its roots to 1673, when French explorers Louis Joliet and Father Jacques Marquette landed there on their way south to the site of another future city-Chicago.
- It played a role in the pioneering days of motion pictures in the late 19th Century.
- It is the hometown of comedian Jack Benny, pro quarterback Otto Graham and science fiction writer Ray Bradbury.
- It claims to be the "freshwater salmon fishing capital of the world."
- It is the site of "McBubble," the Chicago Bears' indoor practice facility, located at the Amhurst Lake Business Park.
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