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    • About
      • Hours
      • Board of Trustees
      • Contact
      • General Questions
      • Employment
      • Bids and Requests for Proposal
      • Policies
      • Strategic Direction
      • FOIA
      • Awards
      • Collection
      • History
    • Giving
      • Foundation
      • Friends
      • Volunteer at WPL
    • Get A Card
    • Accessibility
    • Art/Sculpture
    • Sign up for emails from WPL!
  • Calendar
  • Resources
    • Business Resources
    • Citizenship
    • COVID-19
    • Databases
    • Genealogy and Local History
    • Job Search
    • Local Government
    • Parenting
    • Research Projects
  • eResources
    • eBooks
    • eAudiobooks
    • Movies, TV & Video
    • Online Learning
    • Research
    • Magazines & Newspapers
  • Learning
    • Kids
      • Birth – 2nd Grade
      • 3rd – 8th Grade
      • Reader’s Corner
    • Young Adults
      • Readers’ Corner
      • YA Award-Winning Books
      • Book Lists
    • Adults
      • Adult Classes
      • Adult Readers’ Corner
      • Book Lists for Adults
      • Bound to Please Book Club
  • Services
    • Catalog
    • Recently Ordered
    • Suggest a Purchase
    • Circulation Periods & Renewals
    • Meeting & Study Rooms
    • Print, Fax & Scan
    • LINKin
    • Curbside Pickup & Home Delivery
    • Homebound Delivery
    • For Schools
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About

Welcome! We are glad you are a part of our community. Learn more about your Waukegan Public Library below:

Contact

General Questions

Employment

Bids and Requests for Proposals

Policies

Strategic Direction

Freedom of Information Act

Waukegan Public Library Foundation

Awards

Collection

History of the Library

Board of Trustees

Vision

A community that is always learning and discovering

Adopted by the Board of Trustees in 2014, the library’s vision is for a community that recognizes the importance of learning and is invested in its success. To foster this kind of environment, the library is committed to maintaining active community engagement to ensure that our classes, programming, collection, library services, and exhibits are continuously reevaluated to ensure that it is relevant to the community’s literacy, learning, and discovery needs. Additionally, the library will work to help patrons recognize the ways in which literacy is essential to their lives, as well as to broaden horizons and provide unique, enriching experiences.

Mission

To provide the path to empower and support learning and discovery

Adopted by the Board of Trustees in 2014, the library’s mission statement encompasses the ways the library plans to work towards its vision: by delivering creative, innovative, and relevant classes, programming, and library services to support and enrich the community.

Contact the Library
Main Library

(847) 623-2041
128 North County Street
Waukegan, IL 60085
Hours, directions, and parking

Hinkston Branch

(847) 263-8077
800 North Baldwin
Waukegan, IL 60085
Hours, directions, and parking

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