Camp Logan in Zion was an Illinois National Guard rifle range. This Guard training facility operated from 1892 to 1974 in what is now the I...

Passenger pigeon, 1920.  The Orthogenetic Evolution in the Pigeons.  Hayashi and Toda (artists) 2014 marks the 100th anniversary of ...

Silas S. Nichols (1848 - 1945) was Lake County's last surviving Civil War veteran. Civil War veterans Silas S. Nichols, 145th Ohio (...

Last year marked the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts of America (1912-2012), which were formed in Savanna, Georgia by Juliette Gordon L...

In 1907, Robert H. Aiken (1859 - 1925) of Winthrop Harbor, Illinois invented "tilt-up construction." Col. Robert Aiken. Cement Wor...

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, there were a number of protests by Native Americans for better housing and social services. Some of these...

For Lake County's 96th Illinois Infantry, Chickamauga was "A battle of tremendous proportions and fraught with mighty import."...