Promotional photo for Cora Folsom Salisbury and Jack Benny, circa 1911. In Lake County's entertainment history, “the man from Waukegan,”...

Large letter postcard by the Curt Teich Co. Chicago, 1950. OCH185.  This year (2011) marks the centennial of the establishment of Naval Stat...

Before towns had public libraries they often had “reading rooms.” Waukegan had maintained one through its library association beginning in ...

This year, Waukegan celebrates its 150-year charter as a city. This large letter postcard from the collections of the Curt Teich Postcard ...

Perhaps no entertainer is better known than the beloved Jack Benny (1894-1974), who, as he loved to say, was born in Waukegan a “long, long,...