Photo courtesy of Jansen Family. John Hobart Jansen (1861 - 1908) was the first member of the Waukegan Fire Department to die in the line ...

The running and fitness craze of the 1970s and the popularity of Olympic champion Bruce Jenner, now known as Caitlyn Jenner, led to the crea...

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 ...