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Waukegan E-News - October 2023Enjoy Waukegan E-News! Emailed once a month, the E-News contains information about city services and upcoming events. Recipients may unsubscribe at any time. |
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From the Desk of
Mayor Ann B. TaylorIt is officially Fall here in Waukegan, and there is much beauty in watching our summer leaves of green changing color. If you are doing Fall cleaning, remember that we have Clean Sweep Dumpster Drops and Recycling Collections every Saturday in October from 8am - 12pm Dumpsters will be in the 1st, 2nd, 4th, and 7th Ward. All Waukegan residents may bring their oversized items and electronic recyclables to any Dumpster Drop. Learn more about our Clean Sweep Dumpsters below. Halloween is just around the corner, and seeing our residents decorating for the season has been a pleasure. Please see below for trick-or-treat hours. Please remember that even though school is in session, many of our children spend time outdoors playing. Waukegan Police are increasing their speeding patrols to ensure resident safety, so please be a good neighbor and slow down, especially near our schools and residential neighborhoods. Lastly, December 1st, the City of Waukegan will change our garbage, recycling, and yard waste vendor to LRS. Residents will receive a 95-gallon garbage receptacle and a 65-gallon recycling receptacle. If you want a larger recycling receptacle, please go to the Enrollment Portal or call LRS directly at (844) 633-3577. You need to notify LRS by October 18th to make this upgrade. Finally, if you are getting this newsletter forwarded to you and want to sign up for your own email address, you can click this link to sign up for our monthly e-news. As always, please feel free to contact the City if you have any questions or need assistance from our staff. The phone number for City Hall is (847) 599-2500. From all our staff at Waukegan City Hall, we wish you and yours a festive and safe Fall season. Yours in service,
Ann Taylor, Mayor
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New Waste Collection ContractorThe City of Waukegan recently chose LRS as its new waste, recycling, and landscape waste hauler beginning December 1, 2023. LRS sent a couple of direct mailers to the Waukegan households eligible for their services that announced this change along with a brochure outlining their collection strategy. If you have not done so already, we encourage you to visit their dedicated webpage and cart enrollment portal at LRSrecycles.com/Waukegan to make your size selection of carts for the household waste and recycling. Waukegan homes will automatically be registered to receive a 95-gallon cart for garbage and 65-gallon cart for recyclables if no selection is made. Deadline for cart selections is 6pm on Wednesday, October 18, 2023. For more information, please call 844-633-3577 or send an email to Service@lrsrecycles.com. |
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2023 Leaf Collection ScheduleLeaf collection will begin the last week of October through the first week of December. During this time, Waukegan’s current waste collection contractor, Waste Management, will provide fall leaf vacuuming throughout the community. The official collection schedule will be released in the middle of October. Please visit our website or follow us on social media for more details. Call 847-623-3870 for more info or visit our Yardwaste Collection page. |
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Waste Burning Prohibited* The open burning of leaves, brush, trimmings from trees or bushes, paper, garbage, refuse, waste, or other combustible material on any property, public or private, within the City limits is prohibited. *Waukegan Municipal Code Sec. 10-8 |
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ComEd Tree Trimming in WaukeganComEd will be performing vegetation management activities on distribution circuits in Waukegan within the next few months. The vegetation management activities are a key component of ComEd’s maintenance program to ensure system electrical reliability, as vegetation contact with ComEd equipment is a leading cause of outages. For more information about vegetation maintenance along power lines and ComEd’s “Right Tree, Right Place” program, please visit: http://www.ComEd.com/Trees or call 800-334-7661. |
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Events, Entertainment, & MoreCelebrate another fabulous Wauktober in Waukegan! |
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ArtWaukThis month's ArtWauk in Downtown Waukegan is on Saturday, October 21, and features Kapheim Studio, ArtPark, ArtPie Gallery, Three Brothers Theatre, Belvidere Cinema Gallery, Dandelion Gallery & Studio, Dinosaur Studio Tattoo, Ballet Folklorico Tayahua, Genesee Theatre, the Art Experience, Nightshade And Dark's Pandemonium Brewing, A Crazy Place, and more! |
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