Irish immigrants, William Logue and Bridget Collins Logue, brought their young family to Lake County, Illinois in 1844. The Logue home wa...

In the early winter of 1834, citizens of the village Hannibal, New York were stirring about the prospect of moving west. James Bacon, who ...

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