This handsome portrait of Levi H. Mead, from the collections of the Bess Bower Dunn Museum, prompted me to research his life in Newport Tow...

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...