For the museum's upcoming "Lincoln and the Gatling Gun" exhibit, collections staff selected a number of objects, including a s...

There has been a tradition of brewing in Lake County since 1851. In that year, Antoni Schieb, George Brownwell and Fredrich Hangebrauch...

As a kid in the 1970s, I loved watching Chicago Blackhawks' hockey. Those were the glory days of Bobby Hull, Stan Makita, and Tony Espos...

An important book was recently returned to its rightful home in McHenry. The 563-page ledger book holds the minutes of the McHenry County b...

John Philip Sousa (1854-1932), the most famous bandleader ever known, was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Training base during World War I. ...

The museum's Lizzie Schlager Postcard Collection includes over 900 postcards collected between 1899 to 1912 by Lizzie Schlager. Elise...

My father lost both of his parents to tuberculosis in the 1930s. For thousands of years, the disease was known as consumption, and had no cu...