Kate's Brief History

It was common for craftsmen who built furniture to also provide coffins and the Holland’s Directory listed two men in Naperville: Charles Ba...

On or around July 15, 1831, Joseph Naper and a bunch of other folks started a little community on the banks of the DuPage River. I always ta...

Recently the A ssociated Press reported that a team of divers, Charles Buffum, Craig Harger and Michael Fournier, believe they have disco...

If you've lived near Lake Michigan long enough, you will have heard or read something about the Christmas Tree ships. This year, the Ch...

In 1870, during what is known as the Golden Age of Great Lakes Sailing, nearly 65% of sailors on the Great Lakes were Norwegian. Sailing was...

When the Christmas carol "saw three ships come sailing in" they could have been singing about Chicago in 1831. While shipping wa...