A Pekin woman who gained her freedom from indentured servitude with the help of Abraham Lincoln more than two decades before he issued the Emancipation Proclamation as president is the subject of a ...

Critics are warning that without swift intervention, "we risk losing these historical assets" at Lincoln's New Salem site.

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(This column has been updated to correct the year of Abraham Lincoln's death ... and in his funeral procession en route to Springfield, Illinois, in 1865. Lincoln reminds us that good presidents ...

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker delivered his annual State of the State address in Springfield Wednesday ... abolition of slavery decades before Abraham Lincoln — passionate in his entreaty that ...

Protestors again rallied at the Illinois capitol on Presidents Day ... The crowd of about 200 marched in the street to the home of Abraham Lincoln. At a protest earlier this month, some of the ...

“Here are four shots relating to Abraham Lincoln and President ... houses a replica of the log cabin where Lincoln was born on a farm, on February 12, 1809. The shot with two statues is in Alton, ...

Our second Governor, Edward Coles advocated for the abolition of slavery decades before Abraham Lincoln ... form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust ...