Independence Day is the United States' birthday because the Declaration of Independence was signed July 4, 1776.
Keisha L. Gwin-Goodin is seeing the world in a way most of her fellow graduates from the Lockport Township High School class of 1997 won't.
The U.S. Navy uniform worn during World War I by the late Andrew Don Butts is now on display for all to see at the Joliet Area Historical Museum. Butts passed away Oct. 3, 1960.
One of Will County's Pearl Harbor survivors has fallen. Kenneth Vercil McCalla, a World War II Navy veteran passed away June 1.





