Some property owners choose to have the Waukegan Historical Society place a historic marker on their homes because of the prominence of a former owner, while others feel the business within earned a place in the city’s history.

Dennis and Marilynn Moisio purchased their 89-year-old home on North Avenue in 1980. It originally belonged to Ed Durkin, a prominent merchant, the father of a onetime mayor and grandfather of both a Lake County recorder and a Lake County Board member.

“The building was not historic, but it housed people who were locally historic,” Marilynn Moisio said.

Cribb Fine Foods on Franklin Street was opened by Harold Cribb in 1939 specializing in meats. His grandson, Jeff, and Jeff’s wife, Jenny, own it now, and their son, Jeremy, works in the store. Family businesses su

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