In 1837, 28-year-old Abraham Lincoln met a 23-year-old shopkeeper named Joshua Speed in Springfield, Illinois. The two became close and rented a home together, where they shared a bed and became ...

The barrel-maker moved his shop to Petersburg in 1840, though it has since returned to its original spot. By 1906, New Salem was a cow pasture with impressions marking erstwhile foundations.

In a quarter-century legal career, Abraham Lincoln accepted all types of casework, ... By the late 1840s, grounds for divorce in the state included adultery, bigamy, impotence, ...

1986: Hard Rock Cafe opened in Chicago. Mayor Harold Washington and Chicago Bears quarterback Jim McMahon were among its first guests. TV host Oprah Winfrey attended the opening with Stedman Graham, ...

Abraham Lincoln lived in New Salem from 1831 to 1837 before moving to Springfield. New Salem was largely abandoned by 1840, but reconstructed in the 1930s. Nearly 360,000 people visited New Salem ...