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When Lincoln Christian University closes its doors in May, a local church is set to become the owner of much of the properties and grounds that comprised the 80-year-old private liberal arts college and seminary.
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Attorney and Lincoln historian Guy Fraker settled in Bloomington in 1962. He's been a key figure in documenting and promoting Lincoln's legal career in central Illinois, and fell into an avocation in land conservation by accident. Fraker is profiled as part of WGLT's series on the 2023 McLean County History Makers.
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Two documents written by Abraham Lincoln will be on display at the McLean County Museum of History in Bloomington next Monday and Tuesday in honor of Presidents Day.
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The fate of 1,500-plus artifacts, including some tied to Lincoln’s murder, is unclear as a foundation pulls items out of a state Lincoln museum.
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Tuesday was the 157th anniversary of when Abraham Lincoln’s body was transported through Bloomington to Springfield on the train named “The Lincoln Special."
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Tazewell County is rededicating a trio of markers celebrating the old Eighth Judicial Circuit where Abraham Lincoln got his start as a frontier lawyer.
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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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A new book studying the connections Abraham Lincoln had to Illinois State University is drawing rave reviews.Historian Tom Emery and ISU alum Carl Kasten…
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A long-running effort to make the life of Abraham Lincoln more accessible to the public has reached a new milestone.The Abraham Lincoln Presidential…
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At a time when America is reckoning with much of its racist past, a historian says museums show that many historical figures were flawed people.McLean…