Women’s vote helped create flourishing 100-year-old Waukegan Park District
The first few times Waukegan residents were asked to vote to establish a park district more than 100 years ago, the proposal didn't pass. "But when women got the vote,...
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Hey polar bears, why not plunge into 2017
The Waukegan Park District and the city of Waukegan are inviting some brrrrrrrrrrrave souls to plunge into Lake Michigan during season of freezin' on New Year's Day. Typically about 400...
Lake County flush with winter sports venues
With the white stuff and cold temperatures, Lake County offers plenty of opportunities for shushing, skating and sledding, plus other outdoor exercise.. The Lake County Forest Preserves has almost 166...
Plain White T’s bring melody-driven rock to Genesee
Like the song, "Pause," on Plain White T's' newest album, "American Nights," band member and founder Tom Higgenson said he has taken a little time recently to pause and "smell...
Holiday colors in nature: Wintertime reds and greens abound in Lake County
In the cold, snowy depths of winter, red and green have come to symbolize — especially during the holidays — nature, peace and eternity. This time of year, those colors...
New Year’s Eve events include theater, dodge ball, beach party
There's only one place in Lake County where the family can splash the night away in a pool on New Year's Eve, watch a magician and Hawaiian dancers, get their...
Here’s how to entertain the kids over holiday break
Every year, the Waukegan Park District sponsors free-for-all days at the Hinkston Park Fieldhouse and Aquatic Center during the winter holiday break, and this year youngsters can also use the...
Life-sized wigwam, Civil War artifacts to be featured at new county museum space
When the Lake County Discovery Museum reopens in a new location late next year, children and adults will be able to sit inside a life-sized replica of a wigwam that...
Do-it-yourself ‘Messiah’ features rising opera star soloists
Up-and-coming opera stars will sing solos at the annual Do-It-Yourself Messiah and Carol Sing-Along Dec. 17 in Waukegan, said Waukegan Symphony Orchestra conductor Stephen Blackwelder. "The bass and tenor are...
Welcome Christmas concert features special arrangement of ‘I Believe’
Ever since professional singer and conductor Ron Arden heard Andrea Bocelli sing "I Believe" on a Christmas album several years ago, he's wanted to perform that song in a concert....