Members of the 19th Illinois Regiment, from  The Nineteenth Illinois: a Memoir of a Regiment of Volunteer Infantry Famous in the Civil War, ...

The American frontier of northeastern Illinois posed many challenges for settlers leaving behind established communities in the eastern Unit...

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of National Postcard Week (in the U.S.), I wanted to feature the incredible work of real-photo postcard ...

Daniel Wright (1778-1873) is considered Lake County's first  permanent non-native settler. Native Americans were the original stewards ...