Built in 1911. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986.
From the record
“Naval Station Great Lakes is the home of the United States Navy's only current boot camp, located near North Chicago, in Lake County, Illinois, along Lake Michigan. Important tenant commands include Naval Service Training Command, Recruit Training Command, Training Support Center Great Lakes, United States Military Entrance Processing Command and Navy Talent Acquisition Group Great Lakes.”
Wikipedia article Naval Station Great Lakes, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 98 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1986 · category: District · built in 1911.
National Register reference number.86002890- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
This, as a Congressional Township, is known as Fractional Township 44, north range 12 east. It is bounded upon the north by Waukegan, on the -east by Lake Michigan, on the south by Deerfield, and on the west by Libertyville. The first settlement of this township was commenced in the year 1836. Among the early settlers were Dr. Richard Murphy, William Dwyer, John Dwyer, Lawrence Carroll, Benjamin P. Swain, Isaac Hickox, Godfrey Dwelley, Michael Dulanty, Michael C. McGuire, Thomas Maguire, John Mullery, -Otis Hinckley and John Cloes.
The following, from the report of the Committee on Examinations for 1876-7, will serve as the most comprehensive statement that can be given of the present condition of this department of the University, the Committee being composed of the following learned gentlemen : Rev. Wm. A. Nichols, Lake Forest; Rev. J. B. Stewart, D. D., Milwaukee, Wis. ; Rev. Edward H. Curtiss, Waukegan ; Rev. Geo. C. Noyes, D. D., Evanston ; Rev. J. H. Trow¬ bridge, Riverside:
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Great Lakes Naval Training Station
between 2012 and 2019, burning about 16 acres in total. None started naturally. 1 was recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Debris and open burning
2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
1
Arson/incendiarism
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
2 workings within 5 miles of Great Lakes Naval Training Station: 1 producer, 1 plant.
All of them still produce. What was taken out: Tantalum, Niobium (Columbium), Tungsten, Iodine. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Waukegan, the town this property stands in, in 20 storm reports between 1996 and 2025: 9 hail, 9 thunderstorm wind, 1 heavy rain, 1 lightning.
No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
A large tree was blown down at the corner of Harding Street and Alexander Court. The tree was partially uprooted, lifting a sidewalk. The tree also fell onto power lines.
A microburst caused extensive tree damage between May Street to the north and 8th Street to the south and Jackson Street to the west and McAlister Street to the east. Trees fell on homes and cars causing damage and several roadways were blocked.
No historic map-sheet match is published
for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs
a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary.
Browse the county's mapped places while that work is
pending.
Listed places nearby
6 within 8 miles
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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