New York Herald reporter Henry Villard traveled with Lincoln from Springfield, Illinois ... description of the inaugural train's Feb. 16, 1861, stop at Girard Station, where Lincoln greeted ...

Those involved in unleashed political fighting today should learn from this end-of-war, Easter season moment from York history.

1983: Harold Washington was elected Chicago’s first Black mayor. Washington, a U.S. representative who also served in the ...

Louise Susswell, who turned 101 on April 4, remembers her father used to tell his kids, "I want you to get a good education.

Located near the shores of Lake Michigan, the Loop refers to a group of high-rise buildings within a rectangular loop of elevated train tracks ... Sedgwick subway station. West of the Gold ...

The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is launching a transformative landscaping project that will revitalize Union Square Park with native Illinois plants and flowers, adding new depth a ...

Nathan Koble is personally designing and financing a historical marker to be erected in Lake City this summer.

The tiny central Illinois village, where Lincoln accidentally spent half-a-dozen years in the 1830s, perhaps did as much to prepare him to be the Union-saving 16th president as any other aspect of his ...

The Lincoln Fire Protection District is taking a major step forward in improving emergency response times and firefighter safety by building a new fire station. Deputy Chief Fred Reynolds ...

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 ...