Author Photo: ©Kristee Mays Photography Why haven’t more people heard of Nancy Wake? An upper-class expat who smuggled documents and people out of WWII Paris, armed the French Resistance, and killed a Nazi commander bare-handed, this war heroine should be a household name -- but she isn't. Author Ariel Lawhon sets out to rectify the…
Have you signed up for our first genealogy speaker of the fall season? World War II genealogy expert Jennifer Holik will speak to us next Thursday, September 7 on using Fold3 to research our World War II ancestors. The program will be at Aspen Drive Library starting at 7 p.m. Register now! Fold3 can be…
Welcome back to what is possibly the most disaster-filled entry in my series on the history of Mundelein! At the end of my last entry, Mundelein was on top of the world: with miles of newly paved roads, the addition of another railroad line running through the town, and Samuel Insull himself giving the dedication…
Given that the holidays are drawing near, I thought I would try and find a more festive topic than bank robbing for my last post of 2016. At first I tried to see if there were any non-denominational winter celebrations in Libertyville history, and while Wine about Winter does sound fun (February 18th for anyone who…
