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 ...

“For example, some residents would bring him books to read from Illinois College.” In 1832, Lincoln was elected captain by his company in the state militia during the Black Hawk War, but he ...

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 ...

It is to be constructed on a part of the site where the Lincoln Mall — which operated at Cicero Avenue and Lincoln Highway from 1973 until 2015, when it closed and went on to be torn down.

(AP) — 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 ...