Ray Bradbury Green Town

Ray Bradbury's Green Town Young Ray Bradbury Places of Inspiration The places that inspired world- renowned author and native son Ray Bradbury can be visited by a walking tour of downtown Waukegan and our lakefront. His youth was EN ESPAÑOL & ENGLISH spent... More

Ray Bradbury's Green Town Young Ray Bradbury Places of Inspiration The places that inspired world- renowned author and native son Ray Bradbury can be visited by a walking tour of downtown Waukegan and our lakefront. His youth was EN ESPAÑOL & ENGLISH spent on St. James Street, just six blocks west of the public library where, he said, he earned his education. Visiting the places that waukeganparks.org/signs have made their way into his books Green Town Beginnings The Carnegie Library, One North Sheridan Road, is starts with the park where he played An invention of Waukegan, Green Town is a symbol of safety as a child. It was the first park in where Bradbury spent many and home, which is often the backdrop to tales of fantasy or Waukegan, originally called Powell of his days immersed in menace. It serves as the setting of Ray Bradbury’s semiauto- Park, but renamed in 1990 for books, and is on the biographical classics Dandelion Wine, The Martian Chronicles, the author. National Register Less