Our first history program of the year will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 4, at 7 p.m., at the Vernon County History Center in ...

Despite being little more than the answer to trivia questions today, Vaughn Meader was a pioneer who paved the way for ...

The Edwardsville IL based history museum and library will focus its 2025 lectures on Abraham Lincoln and features four events ...

Feed the Body and the Soul – MLK Day Weekend of Service: 11:30 a.m., Jacksonville Congregational United Church of Christ, 520 ...

With the City Tournament’s No. 1 seed already in hand, Springfield High shot nearly 60% from the field to beat Lincoln 47-32 in a Central State Eight Conference game at Willard Duey Gymnasium on ...

Special Martin Luther King Jr. Day event at Lincoln Library to feature recital by local talent, music, and blood drive The Abraham ... event, Springfield actor Reggie Guyton will perform a reading of ...

The authors of a new book on the founder of the Harlem Globetrotters will be speaking at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield. Brothers Mark and Matthew Jacob will be ...

During the period of 1849 to 1860 Abraham Lincoln spent more time in Bloomington than any other place, except his home in Springfield. In February 1853, the city of Lincoln, Illinois was founded ...

"Steam Locomotive in China"; by Qingjun Huang; Main Gallery; "Held Within the Rocks and Dust"; by Whitney Johnson-Lessard; Project Space; January 2025; Peoria Art Guild. "Herstory ...

There's been another exit from the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield ... the year of Illinois' admission into statehood, was suspended and later fired earlier ...

WASHINGTON (DC News Now) — On this day in history, President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation ... 22, 1862. The National Museum of African American History and Culture said that ...