Kathleen Webster is a South Dakota native who majored in magazine and feature writing at the University of Missouri College of Journalism in Columbia. She worked in public relations for AT&T in Washington, DC, and Illinois Bell in Chicago, and as lifestyle editor for the Telegraph-Herald in Dubuque, IA. As a stay-at-home mom, Kathleen freelanced stories about food, family and travel. She was founding director of the Galena/Jo Daviess County Convention & Visitors Bureau from 1985-1995. Kathleen is no stranger to the tourism trenches; she worked as a waitress, dishwasher, chambermaid and pack trip cook in Minnesota and Montana. The Websters have called Galena home since 1970.

Jim Webster was born and raised in Miami, FL, but migrated North to major in advertising at the University of Missouri College of Journalism in Columbia, where he and Kathleen met. He worked in advertising for the Miami Herald, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune and the Telegraph-Herald in Dubuque, IA. Jim’s career history also includes more than 10 years as a salesman for a livestock feed company and a national industrial chemical company, as well as the co-op advertising program coordinator for a large suburban Chicago heating and air conditioning distributor. Together, Jim and Kathleen work out of their upstairs-downstairs offices in their 1899 home on the outskirts of Galena, IL.

Webster’s Unabridged, Inc.

was incorporated in 1995 as a boutique agency

specializing in tourism promotion and development,

with an emphasis on public relations.