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Santa's Rock N Lights at the Lake County Fairgrounds features giant colorful dinosaurs and peacocks.

Column: Bright lights, outdoor events offer safer ways to celebrate the holiday season

December 2, 2020 at 3:49 p.m.

Every holiday season, every year, I have a ritual where I say "this year I'm going to do _______." Some things that I have talked about doing for decades before...

Attorney Newton Finn, right, talks in the lobby of the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan with former Lake County Board member Larry Leafblad in this file photo.

A Look Back column: Newton Finn lost the 2001 Waukegan mayor election by 6 votes

December 1, 2020 at 9:11 a.m.

This tumultuous election year is reminiscent of other elections in the last 20 years. Obviously, the 2000 presidential election immediately comes to mind, but the 2001 mayoral election in Waukegan...

The show must go online: Suburban venues line up seasonal traditions for virtual events

November 24, 2020 at 1:54 p.m.

In our rapidly changing COVID-19 mitigation situation, it can be hard to figure out what, if any, traditional holiday events are going to be happening this year. A good rule...

Crowds start to build as the noon hour approached on Black Friday at Gurnee Mills in 2014.

A Look Back column: Black Friday at Gurnee Mills — always crowded, sometimes newsworthy

November 23, 2020 at 2:25 p.m.

In August, 1991, the shopping mecca known as Gurnee Mills opened to the public. It has gone through a lot of change in the last 29 years, but one thing...

Column: Could Chicago’s ‘Friends’ Experience BE any more Instagrammable?

November 19, 2020 at 10:21 a.m.

"The 'Friends' Experience" on Michigan Avenue in Chicago provides an interactive experience for fans of the classic sitcom with props, costumes, and 12 rooms, including Rachel and Monica's kitchen. NOTE:...

A statue of Orion Howe, a Waukegan drummer boy who was awarded the Medal of Honor for service during the Civil War, stands in snow-covered Veterans Memorial Plaza in Waukegan after a planned parade to the site was canceled due to snow and cold on Veterans Day 2019.

A Look Back column: Waukegan’s Civil War drummer boy Orion P. Howe won Congressional Medal of Honor

November 10, 2020 at 10:09 a.m.

A 14-year-old Waukegan boy's act of bravery during the Civil War earned him the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1896. The boy, Orion P. Howe, was a musician with the...

Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illinois addresses Democratic National Convention on July 25,1952.

A Look Back column: Mettawa’s Adlai Stevenson was initially a reluctant presidential candidate

November 3, 2020 at 8:18 a.m.

Election Day is always an exciting time in American history, especially presidential election years. In 1952 and 1956, Election Day was especially meaningful to Lake County residents. A favorite son...

Column: Naperville native Carissa Kacmarek creates ‘(un)sociable’ web series in pursuit of Hollywood dream

November 2, 2020 at 11:54 a.m.

Carissa Kacmarek knew she wanted to work in Hollywood from when she was a young girl in Naperville. So a few years after college, she just set out for Los...

The Lake County Discovery Museum acquired a rare gas-powered movie projector invented in 1895 by Waukegan native Edward Amet. Wearing cotton gloves to keep skin oil from contaminating the piece, Museum collections coordinator Diana Dretske points to some of the features. The projector was hand-cranked, and the illumination provided by either a gas lamp or an electric lamp, depending on whichever power source was available at the time.

A Look Back column: Waukegan inventor Edward Amet had a lot to do with birth of movie industry

October 27, 2020 at 1:22 p.m.

The motion picture industry owes a lot to Waukegan. Waukegan inventor and filmmaker Edward Amet is credited with having invented the first practical 35 mm projector in 1894. "He used...

1. Psycho (1960) | Director: Alfred Hitchcock - Metascore: 97 - Number of reviews: 17 - Runtime: 109 min. On the lam and stuck in the rain, a woman (Janet Leigh) pulls into Bates Motel to crash for the night. Her subsequent murder at the hand of Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) was the scene heard round the world. Reviews were mixed upon the film's initial release, but critics eventually caught up to Hitchcock and his game-changing vision.

Shiver time! Halloween movies, from “Monsters, Inc.” to a South Korean zombie thriller to ‘The Exorcist,’ at drive-ins this week

October 27, 2020 at 3:56 p.m.

Halloween's Saturday, and moviegoers in possession of a car, some warm clothes, blankets and an itch to revisit "The Exorcist" or catch up with the South Korean zombie smash "Train...

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