Waukegan is a city in Lake County, Illinois, United States, and its county seat. Located 36 miles north of Chicago, Waukegan is a satellite city within the greater Chicago metropolitan area. Its popul
Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, my
Waukegan, Illinois
…The character Johnny Blaze from the Marvel comic book Ghost Rider is described as having been born in Waukegan. Ray Bradbury spent his childhood in Waukegan and used it as the basis for Green Town, the setting of three of his books: Dandelion Wine (1957), Something Wicked…
Bradbury in 1975
Bradbury as a senior in high school, 1938
Bradbury's "Undersea Guardians" was the cover story for the December 1944 issue of Amazing Stories.