The earliest known discovery of mastodon bones in Lake County occurred in January 1876, as reported by the  Waukegan Weekly Gazette:  ...

The wrongs of slavery were in the hearts and minds of many prior to the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861.  "The Under...

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 (...