Waukegan Weekly Gazette , July 7, 1877.   On July 2, 1776, the Continental Congress voted for independence from Great Britain. The vote was ...

Amos Bennett was the county's first African-American settler, arriving in Gurnee by the fall of 1835. Despite this remarkable distin...

John Adams, the second president of the United States, declared, “I believe that [the Fourth] will be celebrated by succeeding generations ...