One of the greatest high jumping horses of all times—Great Heart—made an appearance at Fort Sheridan in the 1920s. Great Heart clearing ...

In 1976, Ruth Olsson Dixon (1910-2006), wife of Judge Laverne A. Dixon, donated to the museum a unique expression of her Swedish-American he...

Lake County's first school of higher learning was the Waukegan Academy, a place where many prominent citizens became students. The ...

It has been 190 years since the Treaty of Chicago (1833) forced the removal of the Potawatomi, Chippewa, and Ottawa peoples from their lands...

One of the most influential citizens in the development of early Waukegan was Scottish immigrant, James McKay, who lived there from 1841 to ...

Prohibition gang violence spilled into Lake County on June 1, 1930. Mobsters from the Capone and the Druggan-Lake gangs were gunned ...

Postcard of one of the more extreme stunts at the Fort Sheridan horse shows, circa 1930.  BBDM 92.24.255.1. Between 1925 and 1939, the U.S....