The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village ...

However, IDNR beat McClure to it last week, announcing in tandem with the state’s Capital Development Board that it would ...

Before his famous debates, before the Civil War rent the nation, before he helped end slavery and before his tragic assassination, Abraham Lincoln had New Salem. The tiny central Illinois village ...

Springfield, views a hole in the roof of the carding mill, part of the reconstructed village of New Salem where Abraham ...