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

In 1891, a group of Waukegan businessmen formed the Waukegan Bachelors' Club—a men's club for social and "improvement" rea...

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