“This is the legacy of Lincoln High School. It’s a living memorial,” said alumni Barbara Watson-Andrews. A ceremony will be held at the memorial wall on Saturday, March 15th, at 11 a.m. at the ...

By Courtney Mussen The fruit of a collaboration between Goodwin House in Baileys Crossroads and the Concerned Citizens ...

A Pekin woman who gained her freedom from indentured servitude with the help of Abraham Lincoln more than two decades before he issued the Emancipation Proclamation as president is the subject of a ...

In light of President Donald Trump's desire to eliminate the penny, it's noteworthy that one of the most significant coins ...

San Pedro Park marker honors first president of Union women’s group; readers asked to help track down a plaque dedicated to ...

Midwest Athletic Center, 409 Hardin Ave. | Sign up continues through tomorrow for the United Hoops basketball series midwestathleticcenter.com. Consignment Auction: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Prairieland Heritage ...

Mounted cavalry troops lined the streets from the president-elect’s hotel to the Capitol, and sharpshooters stood on rooftops ...

Wayne L. Scott has been portraying President Abraham Lincoln for 26 years, sharing Lincoln's legacy with people across the ...

On July 18, 1863, one of the first all-Black army regiments to serve in the Civil War stormed Fort Wagner in South Carolina.

Near the end of La Jolla Playhouse’s visceral world premiere musical “3 Summers of Lincoln,” the actor playing Abraham Lincoln sits pensively in a white pillar of light, eerily reminiscent of the 16th ...

But Gettysburg has also been a symbol of America’s commitments to freedom and democracy, thanks to the immortal speech that Abraham Lincoln ... the steps of the Lincoln Memorial — with a ...