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

In 1928, the Daughters of the American Revolution designated two Revolutionary War veterans buried in Lake County–Henry Collins and Reuben ...

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