Zion, Il quite recently has had no waiting for blood test results. You just go down there and get married. Perhaps with the AIDS virus this has changed, but it was true 15 years ago, the town was quite proud of this quirk. At that time, Milwaukee had no great Chinese restaurant and I would drive down there often to get something to eat. There was a wonderful old hotel with a 100 foot or more porch, with rockers, which had been turned into an old people's home. It burned down about the time Milwaukee acquired decent Chinese cooking, and I have seldom needed to return to Zion. Byways in genealogy, Ashley "Joseph J & Maxine M. Capezza" wrote: > I'm not sure why, but people did go down to Waukegan to get married. Do > they still do this?? I know it was still a thing in the 1930's. > > I think it might have been a quick or easy way...not a luxury or Las Vegas > type. > \At 05:19 PM 10/21/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >After a brief trip, going through filmed copies of the Milwaukee Journal > >in the 1920's I realized there were many Wisconsin folks, not all even > >from southeast Wisconsin, who were married in Waukegan, ILL. In the 1920's > >the Milwaukee Journal listed under the local marriage licenses, those who > >were , "Licensed at Waukegan" and on June 22, 1925, 14 couples were > >listed. Of those 28 people, 26 were listed as living in Wisconsin cities. > > > >Was Waukegan Ill a 'hot spot' for marriages in the 20's ? > > > >Peg > > > > > > > >============================== > >Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp > > Pray for Peace, > Maxine Capezza > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog