Feeling a little nostalgic for the "good ol' days" of presidential campaigning? This Associated Press Photo was recent...

Community histories often include a section on the local school, but schools are rarely researched in and of themselves. One reason may be t...

One of the most famous railroads in the Chicago region was the Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad—known as the North Shore Line. T...

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,...

Ernst Johann Lehmann (1849-1900) from a photo taken about 1888. Chicago Tribune, January 7, 1900. German immigrant Ernst Johann Lehmann (184...

I happened across this photo of the cornerstone ceremony for the Waukegan Post Office, March 1, 1912. I was intrigued by the vantage point-...

As Dorothy says in the Wizard of OZ , "There's no place like home." That's how the staff felt when we discovered that the ...