Two of Illinois' best museums are in Springfield, according to a site that ranks the best such places in the Prairie State.

Lincoln, a clean-shaven 22-year-old with the barest of formal schooling, had set out in 1831 to haul freight down the ...

_ This April 1865 photo provided by the Library of Congress shows President Abraham Lincoln’s box at Ford’s Theater, ...

A pair of blood-stained white kid-leather gloves carried by the president during the night of his assassination on April 14, ...

An auction of materials relating to U.S. president Abraham Lincoln, upcoming at Freeman's | Hindman, may bring as much as $4 ...

The tiny central Illinois village ... up residence in the village just northwest of the capitol, Springfield. In New Salem, Lincoln encountered the religious and the atheist, the learned and ...