Kate's Brief History

At sixteen years old, Fred Long emigrated from Stuttgart, Germany in 1853 and was living in Naperville by 1856. There is no record of his pa...

While the 1920s started cautiously, with the country still recovering from the war and the Spanish flu, the decade would go on to enjoy unpr...

Graveyards of ChicagoThe People, History, Art, and Lore of Cook County Cemeteries By Matt Hucke and Ursula Bielski Lake Claremont Press ...

  While we in Naperville enjoy our reputation as active members of the Illinois Technology and Research Corridor, we also love our history....

Actually, just the artifacts will live again, but even that's pretty exciting! You may remember the Brief History story from last ye...

In preparation for a teen writing class around Halloween, Kate did a little research on Victorian post-mortem photography. The 2001 Nicol...

Photo by WikiMedia Commons The Museum of Funeral Customs used to be right outside the entrance to Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield where Ab...

In the last edition of this newsletter we mentioned that 145 years ago to the day, Abraham Lincoln was lying in state in Washington, DC. Tod...

John Wilkes Booth shot the President on the evening of April 14 and on April 15 Lincoln died. That was just six days after General Robert E....