Guy Fraker

The Abraham Lincoln Eighth Judicial Circuit marker outside the Tazewell County Courthouse along Court Street in Pekin. Two additional markers are placed at the Tazewell/Woodford County line east of Washington, and the Tazewell/Logan County line south of Delavan.

Remembering the judicial circuit Lincoln rode on the way to the presidency

Tim Shelley

Tazewell County is rededicating a trio of markers celebrating the old Eighth Judicial Circuit where Abraham Lincoln got his start as a frontier lawyer.

Abraham Lincoln, (1809 - 1865), the 16th President of the United States of America.

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Bloomington Attorney Donates 1854 Lincoln Letter To Museum

Charlie Schlenker

A Bloomington attorney and Lincoln scholar has given an 1854 letter Lincoln wrote to a Peoria Attorney to the Abraham Lincoln Library and Presidential Museum in Springfield.

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McLean County Museum of History Unveils 'Invaluable' Lincoln Document

Breanna Grow

The McLean County Museum of History has announced the donation of what staff call an “invaluable” Lincoln document by Lincoln collector and scholar Guy…