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Volunteers behind the Fox River Trolley Museum are in the midst of a good old-fashioned barnraising and are seeking the public’s support in funding the effort. “What we’re doing here is preserving history,” said Kathleen Jamieson, fundraising chair for for the museum in South Elgin. “Many of the trains we have here sit on the line on which they ran so it’s local history,” Its … [Read more...] about Volunteers raising money to expand Fox River Trolley Museum’s storage barn

A variety of people and speakers at the Waukegan Township Martin Luther King Jr. Day event Monday described a variety of ways character breeds influence as it befits the legacy of the late civil rights leader and Nobel Prize winner. Waukegan Township Supervisor Marc Jones said Booker T. Washington originally said, “Character is power.” A short phrase, Jones said it is, “a … [Read more...] about ‘Dreamers’ on minds of Waukegan MLK Dreamers Breakfast attendees; ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere’