In 1891, a group of Waukegan businessmen formed the Waukegan Bachelors' Club—a men's club for social and "improvement" rea...

The museum has a significant Native American collection, most of which was collected or donated in the mid 1950s to mid 1960s. One of the...

The area of today's west Lake Forest, at the intersection of Route 43 and Everett Road, was once the site of a small Irish settlement k...

The postwar era of the 1950s, changed the way America cooked and ate. Television allowed companies to mass-market their products to consume...

Chicago photographer George R. Lawrence (1868-1938) was a renowned inventor of cameras and an innovator of photographic processes.  George L...

World's Fair poster, 1933. Source: online "A Century of Progress International Exposition" was the name of the World's Fa...

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