The story of President Abraham Lincoln’s funeral train will be the topic for the Vernon County Historical Society’s first ...

We’re a day from the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday, the commemoration of the birth of the famed civil rights leader, who ...

Illinois, ready to choose a state flag? Voting is open in the the new state flag design contest. The public can vote online ...

Katherine Jane Chase was born in Cincinnati on a muggy Thursday in August 1840 ... Chase sought the nascent Republican Party’s presidential nomination in 1860, losing to Abraham Lincoln. Though he was ...

If any woman was ever born to be the first lady of the United States, it was Kate. Glitteringly beautiful and dazzlingly charming, she was an engaging hostess whose table ...

According to the U.S. Department of State, in 1789 George Washington began the tradition of taking the oath with a hand on ...

ABRAHAM LINCOLN was born in Hardin Countv, Kentucky, Feb. 12, 1809. He moved to Indiana in 1816; came to Illinois in March, 1830: to old Sangamon County in 1831, settling in New-Salem: and from ...

Steve was born May 26, 1933 in Springfield ... He was a board member of Marine Bank, Bank One Springfield, Abraham Lincoln Association - V.P., Memorial Medical Center Foundation-Vice Chairman ...

Despite being born into a life of privilege ... With the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, he co-wrote the Southern Manifesto, which argued that Lincoln’s election marked the end of any ...

Born in 1935, Hunt grew up in the Woodlawn ... It’s part of the “Freedom in Form: Richard Hunt” exhibition at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield.