The Grayslake Heritage Center & Museum will host the traveling exhibition, Abraham Lincoln: Self-Made in America. The exhibition opens to the public at noon on Saturday, March 23 at noon. The show will run through June 16. Suggested donation: $3.00. Read on...

Musician Lee Murdock will perform Thunder in the Distance, a musical program about Illinois in the Civil War at the Grayslake Heritage Center & Museum on Saturday, June 1 at 2 p.m. Suggested donation $3 for adults, $1 for children.

Museum Director Dave Oberg will discuss the history of Battery H, First Illinois Light Artillery on Thursday, June 6 at 7:30 p.m. Roughly 2/3 of the Battery consisted of recent immigrants. Suggested donation $3 for adults, $1 for children. Read on...

Chicago's American Blues Theater will peform "The Heavens Are Hung in Black," a two man play about the Emancipation Proclamation at the Grayslake Heritage Center & Museum on Saturday, June 8 at 2 p.m. Suggested donation $3 for adults, $1 for children. Read on...