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 his ...

Gina Gillmore-Wolter, president of the New Salem Lincoln League, explains that the drive shaft, just over her right shoulder, has fallen out of the floor of the gristmill, part of the ...

Hosted and narrated by Ramsey Lewis, Abraham Lincoln's Illinois is a series of seven one-minute segments of Lincoln's footsteps in Illinois that will air on WTTW11 and WTTW HD during the months of ...

(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 ...