Waukegan in Lake County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Waukegan Doughboy Statue
Photographed by Michael Ryzy, July 4, 2015
1. Waukegan Doughboy Statue Marker
Presented to Homer Daringer Post No. 281 American Legion by Mrs. Alvin E. Johnson & Mrs. William W. Kyndberg
Erected 1945.
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World I.
Location. 42° 21.556′ N, 87° 50.139′ W. Memorial is in Waukegan, Illinois, in Lake County. It can be reached from the intersection of Washington Street and South West Street. Located in the Veterans Memorial Plaza in Washington Park. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Waukegan IL 60085, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in Greater Chicago. It is also in the American Midwest and on the Great Lakes. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture and also the Northwest Territory.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: U.S.S. Maine Memorial (here, next to this marker); Cpl. Richard E. Bush Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Waukegan Veterans Memorial (a few steps from this marker); Orion Perseus Howe (a few steps from this marker); Welcome to Ray Bradbury Park (approx. 0.2 miles away); Ray Bradbury Park (approx. 0.2 miles away); Washburn and Moen Manufacturing Company (approx. 1.3 miles away); Joseph T. Bowen Country Club (approx. 1.9 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Waukegan.
More about this memorial. The statue once stood in front of the Homer Dahringer American Legion Post.
Additional commentary.
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The Waukegan Doughboy is not E.M. Viquesney's Spirit of the American Doughboy and does not belong
this page online
— Submitted November 7, 2022, by Les Kopel of Oxnard, California.
Credits. This page was last revised on December 26, 2022. It was originally submitted on April 9, 2018, by Michael Ryzy of Palatine, Illinois. This page has been viewed 519 times since then and 16 times this year. Photo 1. submitted on April 9, 2018, by Michael Ryzy of Palatine, Illinois. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.
