Photos courtesy of David Wiegers, Gurnee, Illinois. Wiegers has visited and photographed over 200 statues of Abraham Lincoln and has plans to publish his photographs in a book tentatively entitled ...
There are 75,000 U.S. streets named for Lincoln, but the first known was in Bloomington, which honored the beloved local ...
When Lincoln left Illinois and headed east for his inauguration ... Major Acts In practical terms, the achievements of Abraham Lincoln are mammoth, yet simple to describe: he confronted the secession ...