The Thanksgiving tradition is about 400 years old. Most experts believe that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621 at Plymouth, Mass...

The name Battershall may be familiar to folks in central Lake County, since the Battershalls had general stores in Hainesville and Grayslake...

Trail tree photographed by historian Bess Bower Dunn  on Waukegan Road west of North Chicago, circa 1910. Dunn Museum Collection.  Indigeno...

From 1943 to 1946, Lloyd Ray of Diamond Lake, produced a homespun newsletter known as The Rays (cover of the September 1943 edition shown...

Happy Halloween! Begging, or trick-or-treating, is believed to have begun in the United States in the 1910s. Around the same time, costum...

The Lizzie Schlager Collection at the Lake County History Archives consists of 500 postcards from around the world. Elise Walters Schlager ...

With Halloween fast approaching, I'm sharing some holiday photos and postcards over the next couple of weeks. Halloween costumes for ...