Among the oldest items in the museum's archival collections is a diary kept by Hannah Gwinn Loring (1791 - 1847) written between 1804 ...

Local lore in the Gurnee area claims that witches were burned at the stake in the early days of its settlement. Although this is one of the ...

July 26, 2014 marks the 90th anniversary of the grand opening of the Antioch Theatre building in Antioch, Illinois. Advertisement in the ...

William Bonner, 1841 - 1863 Courtesy of Bonner Family William Bonner Jr. was one of thousands of Lake County men to enlist in the Civi...

Sculptors Edith Freeman Sherman and Lily Tolpo made significant contributions to the county's two  public Civil War monuments in Waukega...

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...