October is American Archives Month which celebrates the value of archives and archivists. Archives provide researchers with firsthand fac...

Recently, while arranging photographs in the archives' files, I became re-aquainted with a series of Spanish-American War portraits fea...

One of the perks of the museum being at Lakewood Forest Preserve is that everyday I get to enjoy wildlife and the change in seasons. Today ...

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

During the depression of the mid-1890s, there was a rise in the number of communitarian groups throughout the United States. American utopia...

It's a little early to be thinking about Halloween, unless you're a museum planning for an exhibition. The Halloween: Superstitions...

This year marks the village of Mundelein's 100th birthday. Actually, Mundelein was settled in 1835, but the village incorporated in 19...