Holiday show features the music of Elvis, Billie Holiday
Elvis and Billie will both be in the building on Dec. 17 — in Genesee Theatre, that is, to perform iconic tunes, including "Blue Christmas" and "God Bless the Child."...
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Holiday-related items dug up amid Lake County Discovery Museum collection
While working at the old Wauconda site of the Lake County Discovery Museum in recent months, Diana Dretske has enjoyed seeing items in the 20,000-plus artifact collection related to the...
Annual holiday train rolls into Gurnee to boost Northern Illinois Food Bank
Hundreds upon hundreds of adults and children huddled in the cold, enjoying the first snow of the year while waiting for the holiday train to arrive at Viking Park in...
Waukegan beach plan seeks to balance recreational needs, environmental issues
With the Waukegan City Council approving a new beach management plan last month, city staff members are applying for grants to continue and increase work outlined in the 83-page document....
Nurses create handmade blankets to warm chemotherapy patients
Steve Alderman and his wife were resting in the atrium at Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Zion on a cold December day when two nurses asked him if he'd...
Kenny G brings indelible smooth style to Genesee
Kenny G is like a Zen master on the soprano saxophone — and his speaking voice is as smooth and lilting as the tone on the woodwind instrument he's been...
Great Lakes balladeer brings Christmas joy to Lake County
Thinking back on how he came to be known as the Great Lakes balladeer, Lee Murdock pointed to his training in folk singing as well as his singing music about...
Wizards of Winter use music, pageantry to tell story of Christmas
What started out as a Trans-Siberian Orchestra tribute project in 2009 to raise funds for a food pantry in New Jersey, has now become the Wizards of Winter — a...
Wind Ensemble holiday concert includes new, familiar
CLC's holiday wind ensemble concert set for Dec. 11 will include recognizable melodies as well as an opener in which brass sounds fill the concert hall, said Michael Flack, the...
Dance concert features professional choreography
After watching a news series about refugees and displaced families, Valerie Alpert began to choreograph a dance reflecting those themes. That dance will be performed by the College of Lake...